| "This was one of the earliest multi-line BBS systems in | continuous operation. It supported a community of IBM PC | users for the Boston COmputer Society which had | approximately 42,000 members at its peak.
"Most of | the time the system was operational it ran out of a | closet in a dormitory at Wellesley College. This was my | residence at the time.
"It took some convincing to | talk the phone company into installing 6 residential | phone lines into one location. They thought I was running | a bookie operation. It then took some doing for the | technician to find 6 spare wire pairs running through thr | campus that he could use for these lines. We spent | several hours tracing through the basements of buildings | until we found the connections we used.
"While | running the BCSnet Host BBS using the Alloy Computer | Products blades we were using RBBS, not TBBS. We switched | to TBBS when we moved the system to Cambridge, MA into | the Boston Computer Society offices near Davis Square. | The system was later moved to Waltham, MA when the entire | BCS offices moved there." - Doug Chamberlin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-237-8530 | Solution Systems, Solutions Systems Technical Support | Wellesley, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-239-3530 | BCSnet ONE OPUS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) SYSOP | Steve Groginsky --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-241-8529 | Withouta Net | BOSTON, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-242-0672 | Keane BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Mike Riley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-244-1903 | The Lost Fido | NEWTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Dan Mahoney SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-244-3425 | Twilight Zone | NEWTON, MA (1987) SOFTWARE | Forum --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-244-7053 | Beta BBS/public Access Unix, BETABBS, The Beta BBS (Public | Access UNIX) | NEWTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Steve Woodward SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-244-8244 | PIRATE'S SPACE STATION | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-245-1270 | Doug's Den, Doug's Den BBS | BOSTON, MA (1990-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-245-9464 | Doug's Den | BOSTON, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-246-5569 | The Boiler Room BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA SYSOP | Mike J. Soulios SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-246-5876 | TOS Tech BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987) SYSOP | Dana Montgomery --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-246-5965 | The GS Towers | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Rick Mancuso --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-247-0417 | Starbase: Boston | BOSTON, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | Rick Giguere --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-247-1626 | Proxcima, Proxima BBS, Proxima Centauri | BOSTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Jorge Rodriguez SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-247-3383 | Data Express | BOSTON, MA (1993-1996) SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-247-6888 | East Coast Circuit Board, EastCoaCircBd | BOSTON, MA (1989-1994) SYSOP | Jeffrey Polo SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-250-8098 | Country Morgue, County Morgue | Chelmsford, MA (1990) SYSOP | John Rex --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-252-0012 | Web Of Desire | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-252-4694 | Arlenet | Taunton, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-252-6446 | Shiva TBBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Adam Heath --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-252-9988 | Mount Kailas BBS | Cambridge, MA (1994) SYSOP | Lobsang Tashi COMMENTS | From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cambridge, | Massachusetts since 03/94. Sysop: Lobsang Tashi. Using | MajorBBS 6.2 with 5 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with 540 MB | storage. Intel at 14400 bps. $40 Annual fee. Virtual | Dharma Center featuring a calendar of teachings and | events from the Buddhist Centers in the New England area. | Usenet newsgroups, teleconference, special interest | groups, file library and more. Come, find your virtual- | self on Mount Kailas BBS. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-254-0496 | SatelLife | BRIGHTON, MA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Kerry Gallivan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-254-3201 | Cruise | BRIGHTON, MA (1993-1996) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-254-8695 | Cruise Systems | BRIGHTON, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Peter Vernaglia --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-255-1125 | Microcom Technical Support, Microcomm BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Michael Flood --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-255-2094 | CStar | BOSTON, MA (1995) SYSOP | Jace Carlson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-255-9465 | Cape Cod Fido, CAPECOD Fido | BOSTON, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Rives Mc Ginley SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-258-7784 | Live Wire | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1986-1987) SYSOP | Steve Wolf --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-259-0181 | OUTPOST | WORCESTER, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-259-1520 | Boston Entertainment Network | WORCESTER, MA (1991) SYSOP | Rick Ciani SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-262-7611 | Atlantis | BOSTON, MA (1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-262-9167 | Mac Boston, MacBoston | Boston, MA, (1984-1986) SYSOP | Steve Garfield SOFTWARE | RBBS-PC, Wildcat, Lazarus COMMENTS | "I worked at Northeast Computer Stores in Boston and | went to the Macintosh Rollout in Boston with Steve Jobs | in 1984. After the meeting I signed up to be a founding | member of the Macintosh Users Group of the Boston | Comnputer Society. As a salesperson in a retail store I | purchased a Macintosh under Apple's Own-A-Mac program." |
"The manager of the computer store allowed to to run | MacBoston 24 hours a day out of the store. It started | off running on a PC and then moved to a Macintosh with a | General Computer Hyperdrive."
"People from all over | the United States dialed in to the message boards. We | even had a MacInTouch message board moderated by Ric | Ford." - Steve Garfield --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-265-1016 | Boston Connection BBS | DORCHESTER, MA (1990-1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-265-4155 | Boston Connection | DORCHESTER, MA (1991-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-266-1821 | Full House BBS | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-266-7507 | Emerson Wall | BOSTON, MA (1989-1994) SYSOP | Rob Koeppel SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-266-7789 | BULLET-80 BOSTON, BULLET-80 Boston, MA, Bullet TBBS I | Boston, MA (1982-1996) SYSOP | Marshall Goldberg SOFTWARE | BULT, TBBS, BULLET-80 COMMENTS | "One of the Boston First Wave boards, the Boston Bullet- | 80, a.k.a. the Boston Bullet, a.k.a. Ye Olde Boston | Bullet, this board lasted almost as long as Xevious BBS, | the record holder for Massachusetts. 1984: Boston Bullet | expands to two lines. Line #2 placed on 617-267-7751. | 1988: Line #2 is removed and Boston Bullet reverts to one | line running at 2400 BPS at 617-266-7789. 1993: Boston | Bullet moves from Boston, MA, to the town of Waltham, MA, | at the new number of 617-893-1753." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-266-9436 | TrailBlazer | BOSTON, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Dave Strickler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-267-2332 | R N' R | BOSTON, MA (1990-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-267-2732 | Calvary | BOSTON, MA SYSOP | Golgo13 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-267-7168 | Vanguard Info Sys | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-267-7751 | Bullet TBBS II | Boston, MA ('-1985) SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-270-9450 | The Wizards Den BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA (1996) SYSOP | Matthew Davy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-272-1911 | Ampro Exchange | Burlington, MA (1984-1985) SOFTWARE | R CP/M COMMENTS | "AMPRO of Burlington, MA, was a company that sold | computer kits and motherboards. They were famous for | their AMPRO 'little board' Z80 CP/M systems." - Winston | Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-272-7533 | Crystal Towers | | BOSTON, MA (1987) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-273-0023 | Shiva Corporation Technical Support | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-273-3262 | 99BBS | BOSTON, MA (1984-1987) SOFTWARE | TI-BBS COMMENTS | "Location: Burlington, MA, U.S.A. The 99 BBS was an | early BBS in Burlington, MA, around the time that Bill | Cosby and the Texas Instruments TI 99/4A micro-computer | was at its height of popularity. The 99/4A was an | interesting microcomputer in that it's built-in | B.A.S.I.C. had no PEEK or POKE command. TI-BBS, BBS | hostsoftware written specifically for the TI 99/4A, was | one of the first BBS programs to sport an online BBS list | database." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-274-0109 | B.C.S. Victor, Victor Bug | Bedford, MA (1984-1986) SOFTWARE | MBBS COMMENTS | "The Victor Users Group of The Boston Computer Society. | 1984: board runs TeleSys-V host software, a version of | MBBS that runs on The Victor, a computer of Morrow | Computing. (The Victor was a computer that competed with | The Osborne. The Osborne won against The Victor, but | lost against the IBM PC, i.e. The Victor was the loser!)" | - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-274-7196 | MAC's Place | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | John McNamara SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-274-8469 | TC-Trader | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1990) SYSOP | Cheryl Buzzell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-274-9814 | The Diamond Caverns | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) SYSOP | David Bestor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-275-0331 | TIAC | CHARLESTOWN, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-275-4121 | Continental Resources, Inc. | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-275-6018 | Personal Cad/Cam BBS | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-1996 | Music Biz BBS | BROOKLINE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-4642 | The Road To Nowhere - Node 2 | BROOKLINE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-5428 | Midnite DEC | BROOKLINE, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | David Strickler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-5577 | Jesse's BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Jesse Cheng SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-5637 | The River Styx | BROOKLINE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-5846 | Eternity, The Magician's Corner, The Manhattan Project | BROOKLINE, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Marcus Holmes SOFTWARE | PCBoard , Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-6538 | Brookline RBBS | Brookline, MA (1984-1986) SYSOP | David Watson SOFTWARE | RBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-6936 | Proxima BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1997) SYSOP | Jorge Rodriguez --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-277-7595 | Proxima BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1997) SYSOP | Jorge Rodriguez --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-278-9759 | The Power Surge | BROOKLINE, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | David Peterson SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-279-3461 | Atomic Dog BBS | Stoneham, MA (1995) SYSOP | Patrick Breen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-279-3561 | Atomic Dog BBS | Stoneham, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | MajorBBS , Major BBS, WorldGroup COMMENTS | From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: WorldGroup | Windows and Win95 access. Shareware and games. Member of | ASP and AOP. SLIP, telnet, ftp, Internet e-mail. | Multiplayer DOOM/Heretic/Descent & others. Online games | and chat. 7 CDROMS & growing. Online shop-ping - home of | Atomic Dog Software. No fee for basic access. Stop by and | have some fun. Telnet: atomicdog.com (ANSI/ASCII/RIP | supported) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-282-7796 | Bit-Byte-Bob's, BitByteBob's BBS | DORCHESTER, MA (1992-1993) SYSOP | Bob McCown --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-284-1097 | Party Time Productions | SOMERVILLE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-284-4913 | The Surfboard BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Terry Stewart --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-284-5123 | The Digital Playground | Revere, MA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Michael Sale SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-286-1034 | Skynet BBS, Whirlwind BBS | BOSTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Christopher Reynolds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-286-1807 | Total Confusion III | BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Joseph Scannelli --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-286-3808 | Skyline (revere), Skynet BBS | BOSTON, MA (1995) SYSOP | Christopher Reynolds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-1117 | Effigy Sys,med, EFFIGY Systems | DORCHESTER, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | John Francis SOFTWARE | Spitfire --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-2597 | The Twilight Zone =THG= | DORCHESTER, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-3994 | The Dream's Theatre | DORCHESTER, MA (1992-1993) SYSOP | Ricky Cheung --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-4667 | B.C.S. Osborne/Zitel, Boston F.O.G., FOG RBBS-RCP/M #29, | Bar-Ken (FOG 29) | Dorchester, MA (1984-1998) SYSOP | John Kinsella SOFTWARE | R CP/M COMMENTS | "The Osborne Users Group of The Boston Computer Society, | The Boston (F)irst (O)sborne (G)roup, B.C.S. Zi/tel. | Before the ThinkPad... before the PowerBook... (before | the TRS Model 100, even...) the most successful little | "portable" computer of its day was Adam Osborne's marvel | of a machine, The Osborne. How "portable" it was was | debatable, since you had to be a weightlifter to lug the | "suitcase" around, but as it could run for an hour or so | off of batteries, it made it the most successful "on the | go" business machine of its era. 1984: board begins | service in Dorchester, MA, running R_CP/M (Remote CP/M) | Heavy Metal BBS host. 1986: First Osborne Group of Boston | is merged into the B.C.S. Osborne board. 1994: the | Boston FOG archives are merged into CP/M guru Jay Sage's | B.C.S. Zi/tel Z-Node PC-Board to join the Kaypro archives | at 617-965-7046." - Winston Smith Boston Osborne Group | (FOG AMO #122) member supported Boston Osborne Group (FOG | AMO #122) member supported --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-6040 | The Twilight Zone (node 2) | DORCHESTER, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-8319 | Boston EMS (101/455) | DORCHESTER, MA (1989) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-288-9460 | Message Unit, Tech Talk | Dorchester, MA (1983-1984) SYSOP | SOFTWARE | MBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-289-5000 | Apogee | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-290-5726 | BCS - Info Center, BCS Info Center | WOBURN, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Martin Wartak SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-293-2522 | Cerebral Vertex | Halifax, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-293-3977 | Embassy of Knowledge | Pembroke, MA (1983-1986) SYSOP | R.K. Adams SOFTWARE | InfoQuick --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-293-5492 | MindsEye 4am-6am | Hanson, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Anne Dantzler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-320-0420 | The Convention Center | BOSTON, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Andrew Pollack --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-1110 | ADFIS, American Disabled Foundation Information Service | (1995-1996) SYSOP | James McFall SOFTWARE | Major BBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-2886 | Visions of Chrome | (1995-1996) SYSOP | Chris Scovil --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-3214 | 99er's Association | Malden, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-6809 | Atlantis Control | Malden, MA (1984-1985) SOFTWARE | Color-80 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-7240 | American Disabled Foundation Information Service | (1994-1995) SYSOP | James McFall --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-8214 | National 99er's, Rockers 99'er | Malden, MA (1987-1989) SYSOP | Russ Medeiros --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-8999 | ADFIS BBS | (1996-1998) SYSOP | John Cunniff --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-321-9847 | Stargate BBS | --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-323-1580 | The World's Greatest BBS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1998) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-323-1727 | The World's Greatest BBS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1998-1999) SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-323-3841 | AOS Boston | Boston, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Andrew Cencini SOFTWARE | Wildcat COMMENTS | "AOS == AlphaCom Online Services, a board I used to run | with one node and a copy of Wildcat! This was my first | real foray into running a BBS, and I had the pleasure of | meeting many new people as the board grew. Tom Reed, a | really good friend of mine, was someone who I met through | AOS and he was the assistant sysop practically from the | start. Had plenty of fun setting up LORD, etc with him | and others, but things had already peaked shortly before | hand in the BBS world." - Andrew Cencini --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-323-9746 | MindsEye 4am-6am | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1992-1995) SYSOP | Anne Dantzler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-324-3705 | Deep Space 9 | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-324-4305 | Studio 88 | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Hoyin Au --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-324-6923 | On Record Music, OnRecord Music/Midi BBS | BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Robert Tudor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-324-8468 | The New Beginning | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Lazarus Long SOFTWARE | GBBS Pro --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-325-1745 | PC XPRESS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1991) SYSOP | Artie Abate --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-325-4749 | Your BBS Name Here | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | John Klein SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-325-9147 | R.A.M. | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | AMIS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-326-0259 | Binex II, BINEX II Systems, Binex II Online | Dedham, MA (1985-1991) SYSOP | Bob Damelio, KB1S SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-326-4676 | Binex, Binex II, BINEX II Systems | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1994) SYSOP | Bob D'amelio SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-326-4812 | BINEX II Systems, Castle Island T-Net | Dedham, MA (1983-1991) SYSOP | Bob D'Amelio SOFTWARE | PCBoard, T-Net, R CP/M COMMENTS | "Castle Island T-Net was one of the more interesting of | the Boston First Wave boards. Bob D'Amelio wrote the | custom T-Net software for his Apple-][ system. Although | it never caught on in the Apple-][ market, when his Co- | Sysop appropriated it and converted it over for the | Commodore 64, it became a success as C-Net. The board | was renamed and became line #1 of the Binex-II system. | In 1984: Binex-II T-Net was moved to 617-326-0259 as line | #2, and R_CP/M was placed on 617-326-4812 as line #1. | 1985: The end of the T-Net experiment, RBBS is placed on | 617-326-0259. 1986: New experiment, Bob starts the | earliest UNIX BBS in Boston -- Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#1 | at 617-354-8604 and Binex-II UNIX-Chat Line#2 at 617-354- | 8605 in Cambridge, MA, USA. 1987: PC-Board replaces | R_CP/M on 617-326-4812. 1988: All lines are now PC-Board. | Third line added: 617-326-4676." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-326-5842 | Pandamonium BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Randy Hargis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-327-1181 | RAM BBS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1989) SYSOP | Michael Kentley SOFTWARE | ?some homebr --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-327-2847 | Stairway to Heaven | West Roxbury, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-327-3329 | Intruder Alert! | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-327-3375 | Machine Shop | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1994) SYSOP | Michael Lawrence --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-327-6308 | Machine Shop | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1994) SYSOP | Michael Lawrence --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-328-7371 | The Tackle Box | QUINCY, MA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Jack Conti SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-329-8387 | Digital Vision Inc, Digital Vision Technical Support, | Digital Vision, Inc. | Dedham, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-1070 | The Navigator BBS | BOSTON, MA (1989-1997) SYSOP | John Connolly --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-3080 | The Underground BBS | BOSTON, MA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Bob Mumaw --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-3915 | Solution Systems | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-4181 | B.C.S. #-1, B.C.S. TI99 BBS, BCS TI 99er's BBS Line 1 | Weymouth, MA (1984-1996) SYSOP | Tom Ward, Tom Ward SOFTWARE | TI-BBS, Telegard COMMENTS | "The Texas Instruments Users Group of The Boston Computer | Society. The 'TI Twins' as some called them, were twin | TI99/4A's that ran TI-BBS on two separate lines in the | town of Weymouth, MA, in the 1980's. 1984: twin TI-BBS | systems begin operation in Weymouth, MA, Line #1 is at | 617-331-4181 and Line #2 is at 617-335-8475. (Wonder Twin | Powers... Activate!) . 1990: Line #2 is dropped. (Wonder | Twin Powers... Deactivate!) . 1991: board at 617-331- | 4181 switches to Telegard host software, the only | software at that time that could support the forty-column | TI99/4A. 1992: board begins FidoNET networking as node | 1:101/610, sharing the B.C.S. echomail message bases. | (The TI99/4A had quite a nice little graphics chip co- | processor. If you tried to print to the screen the CPU | was slow as molasses; write to the buffer with a graphics | call and zap!)" - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-7642 | Barritone Max | Boston, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Jim Barrett SOFTWARE | Opus , Maximus COMMENTS | "My family couldn't afford a computer in the 80's so I | didn't discover BBSes until the 90's. I bought my first | computer in 1991. It was a Packard Bell 386sx with 1mb of | memory and an 80mb hard drive. I dove into it learning | how it worked and eventually teaching myself how to | program. I bought my first modem (2400 bps) around 1992 | and started calling BBSes. I was hooked! I would stay up | late chatting, reading FidoNet and playing games. I | started my own BBS in 1994 and eventually registered my | own FidoNet address. Odd working hours and my financial | situation eventually led to the BBS shutting down. I've | often thought about starting one up again for nostalgic | reasons but never got around to it. I was very lucky to | have been involved before it all went away." - Jim | Barrett --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-331-8624 | Fred's Fido | BOSTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Fred Donahue SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-3200 | Connections, Connections BBS Meeting Place | NEWTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Major BBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-5584 | BCS IBM UG TBBS, The Boston Computer Society | NEWTON, MA (1984-1996) SYSOP | Doug Chamberlin, D. Chamberlain SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-5896 | CASINO | NEWTON, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | AMIS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-6432 | The Meeting Place at Elliot House | NEWTON, MA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Steve Groginsky --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-7096 | Midnite DEC | NEWTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | David Strickler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-7493 | Fernando's Hideaway | Newton, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-332-9739 | The Polish Home | Newton, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Vladek Komorek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-334-2020 | Diversi-Dial 16, 2112 Chat Line | Lynnfield, MA (1985) COMMENTS | $3 month for the password. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-334-2437 | Grey Haven | Lynnfield, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-334-6369 | DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18, DIAL-YOUR-MATCH #18 Lynnfield | Lynnfield, MA (1982-1985) SYSOP | Robert Oppenheim SOFTWARE | DIAL-YOUR-MATCH COMMENTS | "Came across this site through BBS Documentary. I ran | this BBS while I was in high school after my sister went | to college and we had extra phone line. It was a blast | chatting with people and meeting a few along the way. | Afterwards, I majored in Computer Science (thanks largely | to this experience). Later went to medical school and am | currently an ophthalmologist in Chicago area." - Robert | Oppenheim --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-0602 | Weymouth Airship Society | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995) SYSOP | Fred O'Grady --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-1408 | Weymouth Airship Society | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Fred O'Grady SOFTWARE | RBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-2238 | The Complete Sports BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-2283 | The Complete Baseball BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-6842 | The Complete Sports BBS | Weymouth, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-335-8475 | B.C.S. #-2, BCS TI 99er's Line 2 | Weymouth, MA (1985-1989) SYSOP | Wendell Davis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-336-1408 | Weymouth Airship Society | CHELSEA, MA (1995) SYSOP | Fred O'Grady --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-336-4243 | Hotel California | CHELSEA, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-340-5466 | Boston And West, LiveWire Online, Local 369 BBS, Metro | Boston Area, Net 101 Central | BOSTON, MA (1997-2001) SYSOP | Don Stirling --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-344-0863 | Dream Weavers - DITR, Dream Weavers DITR | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1982-1998) SYSOP | Tony Koker --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-344-4758 | Cloud Nine BBS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1991) SYSOP | Michael Brennan SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-346-4317 | Merrimac PCBoard Systems | BOSTON, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Don Brown SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-350-7843 | ATDT East | BOSTON, MA SYSOP | Count Zero --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-350-8513 | Tune'n Tufts | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) SOFTWARE | Wildcat! --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-351-7077 | Channel 1 | BOSTON, MA (1993) COMMENTS | 2400 bps --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-352-7505 | Demon's Lair, The Deamon's Lair | Georgetown, MA (1983-1988) SYSOP | Reed Savory SOFTWARE | TBBS COMMENTS | "I ran a BBS out of Georgetown, MA in the mid-80s called | "The Deamon's Lair" (and later I learned how to spell, | "The Demon's Lair"). Original system went online in | approx. 1983 (on an Apple II+ clone [Franklin Ace 1000], | using software I wrote myself in Apple BASIC of all | things!), with an Anchor Automation 300bps modem. Entire | system was replaced in 1985 by an IBM XT clone (Kaypro | PC) running TBBS. The later system was distinguished by | having two lines, and I also hosted five or six of the | old Infocom text adventure games (like Zork, "Leather | Goddess of Phobos", etc.) which users could play online." | - Reed Savory --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-353-2244 | Sam's Place | BOSTON, MA (1987-1990) SYSOP | Sam McCracken --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-353-3137 | Channel 1 | Cambridge, MA (1987-1992) COMMENTS |
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HST --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-353-5377 | Boston University CRS, CSR Net | BOSTON, MA (1989-1992) SYSOP | Sam-po Law, Cathy Norman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-353-7528 | FIDO #45 Midnight DEC, Midnight DEC | BOSTON, MA (1984-1985) SYSOP | David Strickler SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-353-9312 | B.C.S. IBM PC User's Group, Boston Computer Soc., Computer | Society, RBBS IBM PC Computer Society, BCS | IBM | Boston, MA (1983-1997) SYSOP | , Dick Rohrdanz SOFTWARE | RBBS, Fidonet, Opus COMMENTS | "The BBS of the IBM Users Group of The Boston Computer | Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Boston, MA. 1986: | board switches to Fido software, begins networking as | FidoNET node 1:101/122 . 1987: board moves from Boston | to Newton, MA, at 617 -332-5584. 1988: board switches to | Opus software to share B.C.S. echomail bases. 1989: | board switches to TBBS and adds another line at 617-964- | 2544. 1992: A third line is added at 617-964-2546. 1994: | board moves to the town of Waltham, MA. Line #1 is now at | 617-466-8730 and Line #2 is at 617-466-8740. 1995: B.C.S. | tries for the "super-board". The IBM Users Group forms | an alliance with the main board and is renamed as a sub- | node of FidoNET node 1:101/121. 1996: the board drops | FidoNET cold switching over to the internet and talking | UUCP protocols. 1997: last gasp, board runs a few months | at 781-466-8724." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-0470 | Channel 1 (R), Channel One BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-0784 | Channel One | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-2171 | Viking Magic | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1994) SYSOP | David Patterson SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-2317 | Channel One | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-2505 | Channel One BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1993) SYSOP | Brian Miller, Tess Heder SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-3137 | Chan.One 3, Channel 1 (R), Channel 1 Node #3, Channel One | BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-3230 | Channel 1, Channel 1 (R), Channel One BBS, CHANNEL 1 | ONLINE | Cambridge, MA (1987-1995) SOFTWARE | PCBoard COMMENTS |
v.32bis
v.32bis
CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617-354- | 3230 — Using PCBoard. ""The Best Files in the USA"", 90 | lines, v.32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; Amiga; | Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, sound | files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo Nets. | InterNet. Over 2,500,000 calls and growing. Come Join us! | - BBS Magazine November, 1994
CHANNEL 1 ONLINE, 617- | 354-3230 — Using PCBoard, ""The Best Files in the | USA"". 90 lines, v,32bis support. 96 IBM file libraries; | Amiga; Macintosh; Unix; Adult. Massive Windows, .GIFs, | sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo | Mets. InterNet. Over 2,500.000 calls and growing. Come | Join us! - BBS Magazine March, 1995
CHANNEL 1 ONLINE. | 617-354-3230 — Using PCBoard. The Best Files m the | USA"", 90 lines, i',32bis support, 96 IBM file libraries; | Amiga; Macintosh; Unix: Adult. Massive Windows, GIF's, | sound files collections. Online games and shopping. Echo | Nets, InterNet, Over 4,000,000 calls and growing. Come | Join us! - BBS Magazine October 1995 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-4128 | Channel One | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-4443 | Channel 1 (R) | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-5776 | Channel 1 (R), Channel 1 High Speed, Channel 1 Node #2, | Channel One BBS (High Speed) | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1994) SYSOP | Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard COMMENTS | 14.4 v.32bis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-6073 | Grand Central BBS, The Commodore 64 Hotel | Cambridge MA (1987-1995) SYSOP | Paul Ferdinand, The Manager SOFTWARE | C-Net, C-Net 12, New Image BBS 1.0 COMMENTS | "This BBS started as a C-Net BBS. In say about 1889 I | converted to BBS software called New Image BBS. This | software was written by Ken Pletzer, (not sure of the | spelling) who was one of the original writers of the C- | Net BBS system. The writers had written a networking | routine into the New Image BBS so all of the boards could | network with each other and exchange message boards and | software. I was connected to 3 other New Image Boards | which in turn connected to other boards all around the | country. It turned out to much fun and we all enjoyed | the info we received." - Paul Ferdinand --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-6155 | Chan.One 2, Channel 1, Channel One BBS (Subscriber Line), | node 2 - comms | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988-1993) SYSOP | Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-7077 | Channel 1, Channel One | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-8077 | Channel 1 tm | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-354-8873 | Channel 1 (tm), Channel 1 (tm) Online, CHANNEL 1 | Communications, Channel 1 Node #1, Channel | One BBS, Jung, Robert K., Channel 1 BBS | Norwood, MA (1986-1996) SYSOP | Brian Miller, Miller & Heder, Brian Miller & Tess Heder, | J. Brian Miller SOFTWARE | PCBoard COMMENTS | 2400 baud
70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - Internet - | 1000’s msg. confs.
70-line PCBoard - 8 GB Files - | Internet - 1000’s msg. confs. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-356-0109 | BMUG Boston OneNet | BOSTON, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Noel Gouveia --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-356-3538 | Tom's BBS, Tom's Landline BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Tom McGee SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-361-1242 | SkyLine, Skyline BBS | HYDE PARK, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-361-1385 | Hackersville | HYDE PARK, MA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Mike Bordonaro --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-361-5459 | Dial Your Match #284 | Boston, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-361-6931 | Skyline BBS | HYDE PARK, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-361-7264 | Skyline BBS | HYDE PARK, MA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Fred Bowes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-1576 | Tangent BBS | HYDE PARK, MA (1993-1998) SYSOP | Jeffrey L. Jordan SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-2474 | The Toolbox | HYDE PARK, MA (1988-1990) SYSOP | Charlie Kron --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-3304 | Swift's Ridge | HYDE PARK, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Gen. Delux --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-5474 | Skyline BBS | HYDE PARK, MA (1997-1998) SYSOP | Fred Bowes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-6217 | The Toolbox | HYDE PARK, MA (1988) SYSOP | Charlie Kron --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-364-7932 | Board Room | HYDE PARK, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Curtis Holzendo --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-365-4155 | The Boston Connection | DEDHAM, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-366-5685 | Boston Area Real Estate BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Dick Copits --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-366-5784 | M.L.S. Westboro, Westboro Fido | BOSTON, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Chester Humphrey SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-366-9141 | KING INSTRUMENT BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-369-0501 | Computer Room | Concord, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-369-4309 | Milliways II | Concord, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-369-8920 | Nibble Hotline | Concord, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-371-1075 | The Cat's Den IV | BOSTON, MA (1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-371-1855 | RAM COMP CTR | BOSTON, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | AMIS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-373-2204 | Rogers & Blake BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Sid Rogers --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-373-3193 | TwiliteZone | BOSTON, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-373-7404 | 617's TAG Beta, Purple Cowz Hideout | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Brian Dodds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-373-7453 | Cowz | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Brian Dodds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-374-9255 | Bound for Pleasure BBS | Cambridge, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | BlackHawk, Heather --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-374-9285 | Micro Center | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-376-0909 | The IMPosium | QUINCY, MA (1994-1996) SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-376-2569 | Comlab BBS | QUINCY, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-380-7886 | XBN BBS Z Innovators Support | BOSTON, MA (1990-1992) SYSOP | Glenda Stocks --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-381-0177 | Withouta Net | MALDEN, MA (1991) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-383-2789 | South Shore Secrets BBS, SSS, SOUTH SHORE SECRETS BBS | Cohassett, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | P. Crimmins SOFTWARE | MajorBBS COMMENTS | SOUTH SHORE SECRETS BBS 617.383.2789, is a full feature | BBS. We have thousands of adult text and picture files, | all sexual preferences supported. SSS is networked to 30 | Adult BBSs through out the US. S50 per year buys it all. | Call voice 617.383.2264 for a free look. SSS, Home of the | Marynet. - BBS Magazine March, 1995 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-383-9495 | Utopia | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-383-9684 | Silly City BBS | BOSTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Dean Volungis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-387-4220 | The Electronic Rain Forest, The Electronic Rainforest | MALDEN, MA (1991-1997) SYSOP | John O'Neill --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-387-8323 | Dave's BBS, Daves BBS | MALDEN, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | David Thompson SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-388-5125 | Amesbury BBS | WOBURN, MA (1980) SYSOP | Howard Moulton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-389-4018 | Withouta Net | MALDEN, MA (1991) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-389-5784 | Emergency Room C64 | Everett, MA COMMENTS | Part-Time BBS (8pm-8am, 24 Hours on Weekends) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-389-6318 | Lost and Found | Everett, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-391-7437 | The Slammer | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-393-0067 | The Party Time Productions | WATERTOWN, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Norman Gray SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-393-0890 | Up All Night | WATERTOWN, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Larry Cassity SOFTWARE | Spitfire --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-393-3875 | Middle Earth | WATERTOWN, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | John Radoff --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-393-5346 | Northway | WATERTOWN, MA (1988) SYSOP | Alex Lotoski --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-395-4317 | Total Confusion | BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Charlie Purdy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-395-4639 | MeLtDoWn, The House Of The Rising Sun | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-395-6787 | Night Rider BBS, Nightrider BBS, The Night Rider | BOSTON, MA (1991-1998) SYSOP | Bob Luongo SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-395-8866 | Eagle's Nest | BOSTON, MA (1991-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-396-4607 | B.C.S. Atari, BACS, S.S.A.G.#2, Toad Hall | Medford, MA (1984-1998) SYSOP | Dana Jacobson SOFTWARE | Nite-Lite, RatSoft, MichTron(M-Net) COMMENTS | "The BBS of the Atari Users Group of The Boston Computer | Society. 1984: board runs Paul Swanson's Nite-Lite host | software. 1988: a second line is added at 617-391-6745 | and the BBS switches to an Atari ST running the MichTron | host software. Dana Jacobson takes this opportunity to | rename the BBS, 'Toad Hall', in honor of his favorite | music album. 1994: board moves from Medford, MA, to East | Boston. The new numbers are: Line#1 at 617-567-8642 and | Line#2 at 617-569-2489 . The board adds M-Net networking | to make up for the B.C.S. dropping all support in its | vain try for a 'super-board'. 1997: After the collapse of | the BCS the board moves to Billerica, MA, at 978-670-5896 | . Board switches to an Atari Falcon running RatSoft and | becomes the new home of the S.S.A.G. (South Shore Atari | Group of Boston) Dana Jacobson carries the Atari e-'zine, | 'ST Report'." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-396-9113 | The Window Box | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-396-9416 | The Wyvern's Lair, Thw Wyvern's Lair, Wyvern's Lair III | BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-1361 | The Bit Bucket | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-1931 | The Continuum BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995-1998) SYSOP | Matthew Morse SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-7962 | Up All Night, Up All Night BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Larry Cassity --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-8844 | Fantasy Realization, The Boston Dungeon Society | Boston, MA (1996) COMMENTS | From the January 1996 issue of Boardwatch: Internet | Domain: bdsbbs.com (99.242.194.90) Dedicated to those | interested in the consensual domination & sub-mission | lifestyle (B&D, SM, BDSM), two teleconference systems, | SIGs, Matchmaker, run by the author of The Loving | Dominant. Don't Dream. Live. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-8880 | Boston Rocks BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Ron Doty --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-397-8888 | Boston Rocks BBS | Malden, MA (1990-1998) SYSOP | Ron Doty SOFTWARE | Wildcat , WildCat 4.01 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-398-1695 | MALE BOX | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Mario Mere' --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-399-7876 | Amiga Land | BOSTON, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-421-6755 | Forgotten Dimension | BOSTON, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Monarch --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-423-3733 | Zoom Telephonics Technical Support | Boston, MA (1990-1995) SYSOP | Jon Roberts, Kurt Doxey SOFTWARE | Wildcat! COMMENTS | "I (Jon Roberts) worked for Zoom Telephonics as a support | technician in the customer service department. When I | arrived at Zoom, the was a BBS in existance which had | been set up by the general manager of customer service, | Kurt Doxey. The BBS was used for customer support | requests but had fallen into disuse. As a phone support | technician, I had plenty of time on my hands to goof off | on the BBSs while I was working. I was bothered by the | fact that there was no official presence by Zoom support | on the board and took it upon myself to respond to all | the emails. One day, my boss, Tony Fiorillo, manager of | technical support, snuck up behind me thinking that I was | goofing off. I told him I was answering emails on the | BBS and he was a little stunned that someone had taken | some intiative. Later, I was called into Kurt Doxey's | office. I was expecting to get yelled at but he pointed | to the PC and rack of modems in the corner of his office | and told me that I was now in charge of the BBS. I | thought this was pretty cool because I had been a BBS fan | for many years and had never taken the oportunity to | SYSOP. I revamped the who system, added some wicked cool | ANSI graphics, uploaded some neet modem utilities and | locked up the email system to send all mails to me | directly so I could respond to them in an official | capacity. After a few more years, Zoom began using AOL | and the web for support and the BBS fell into disuse. | When I left Zoom for greener pastures, the BBS was still | running and I'm not sure how much longer it remained in | existance." - Jon Roberts --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-423-6985 | Boston Information Exchange | BOSTON, MA (1982-1983) SYSOP | Glenn Meander SOFTWARE | M-TREE (Communitree Clone) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-424-1101 | Kingdom Interprise | BOSTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-424-6822 | WBCN-terface, WBCN Listings | Boston, MA (1983-1985) SOFTWARE | Ethylnet Videotext COMMENTS | "WBCN was always the most progressive radio station in | the city of Boston. They were the first radio station to | allow callers to dial into their mainframe and leave | feedback about their various radio shows and various on | the air personalities. A full decade before the advent | of the World Wide Web, the WBCN-terface allowed consumers | to provide direct public electronic feedback to a | commercial enterprise." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-426-1910 | Frye Computer Systems Inc | Boston, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-426-6513 | ARCHIBoard BBS | BOSTON, MA (1992-1998) SYSOP | John Byrd --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-429-1784 | CUL DE SAC | BOSTON, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Pete White --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-429-8857 | Cul De Sac | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Pete White --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-432-2511 | Boston AIDS Consortium | BROOKLINE, MA (1994-1995) SOFTWARE | CUSTOM --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-433-2702 | The Demon's Den | BOSTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-433-8452 | IBM Tech Fido, IBM Tech Fido 101/433, Net 322 Echo Coord, | SoftWare Dist | BOSTON, MA (1986-1989) SYSOP | Steve Ahola SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-436-6893 | Batcave, The Bat Cave | DORCHESTER, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-437-1693 | ATDT | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-438-3259 | The Ephemeral BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-438-6887 | Revolution #9 | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) SYSOP | The Vidiot --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-438-7709 | Bill's Corner | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-439-0399 | E.P.Levine | BOSTON, MA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Steve Brettler SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-439-5699 | Citi Net | BOSTON, MA (1989-1990) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-441-2202 | Allegro | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1989) SYSOP | Fred Holmes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-442-6071 | Nautica BBS | Boston, MA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Maria Forshaw SOFTWARE | Telegard , Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-442-6151 | Nautica BBS | ROXBURY, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-443-7428 | PIRATE'S GOLDMINE | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-1184 | Compmagic | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995) SYSOP | Scott Edelstein, Steve Edelstein SOFTWARE | Major BBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-3185 | Leading Edge BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-4061 | The Weed Garden! | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993-1995) SYSOP | Holt Lipman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-5401 | KINGS CASTLE | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | AMIS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-6774 | Pro-Scruffs | Needham, MA (1993-1996) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-6821 | TREASURE ISLAND | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1982) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-444-7687 | Black Magic, Homeroom #9 BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-448-2739 | Tony's Opus | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Tony Roscillo --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-2589 | Xevious | Needham, MA (1982-2000) SYSOP | George Kassabgi, Jeff Keegan, Nels Anderson SOFTWARE | Net-Works-][, GBBS-Pro, PC-Board, custom (on Apple II) | originally COMMENTS | "One of the original Boston First Wave boards, the origin | of Xevious is lost in the mist of time. Xevious was the | greatest BBS in the state of Massachusetts. When the | Sysop moved out of the Boston Metr Area, he left a call- | forwarded line so that regulars could still reach him. | *ALL* hardware types were welcome: Apple, TRS-80, Atari, | TI, Commodore, Z-80... even when the BBS ran on INTeL | hardware! 1983: 617-449-2589 and 617-449-4146. 1986: | Board moves to Framingham, MA, at 508-875-3618. Call | forwarded line begins service at 617-449-7322. 1987: | Board switches to GBBS-PRO software. 1990: Board switches | over to PC-Board software and starts networking as | R.I.M.E. Relaynet Node #159. Two lines are added: Line | #2, 508-875-4786 and Line #3, 508-820-7360. 1998: Board | drops from four lines to two -- Line #1, 508-788-6951 and | Line #2, 508-788-6952." - The Boston Historian
| "Xevious was originally written by George Kasabgi of | Needham Massachusetts. It ran on two Apple II computers, | connected with two serial cards and a serial cable | wrapped in tin-foil. It had a 6-meg hard drive. Two | distinct features were a two-person chat system (where | you could chat with whomever was on the other computer, | not just the sysop), and Xevious Trek (a highly addictive | grid-based trek game, with multiple planets, hidden | galaxies, and the ability to attack other players while | they were offline). When George Kasabgi had to go to | Canada for several months, he considered closing the BBS. | I (Jeff Keegan) offered to run it in his absence, and the | BBS was moved to Stoneham, MA. If I remember correctly, | the two lines there were 617-279-0354 and 617-438-???? | Anyway, I ran it there for several months, eventually it | went back to George, and then later he decided to call it | quits. Nels Anderson stepped in, offering to move the | BBS to Framingham, Massachusetts. At some point someone | made the joke that since it was born in Needham, moved to | Stoneham, and then moved to Framingham, it should | probably go to die in Dedham." - Jeff Keeghan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-2808 | PIRATES HIDEAWAY, PIRATE'S HIDEAWAY | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-3112 | AE LINE: BUBBA | BOSTON, MA (1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-4727 | FIDO #318 PC-Week, FIDO #318: PC-Week, FIDO #319 Tribury- | Fido, FIDO #319: Tribury-Fido, PC Week | hints | Needham, MA (1985-1986) SYSOP | Garry Ray, PC Week SOFTWARE | FIDO --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-6584 | The Chicken Coop! | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-7218 | BDS | BOSTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-449-7322 | )(evious, Xevious, Xevious Direct Chat | Framingham, MA (1986-1995) SYSOP | Nels Anderson SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-450-0765 | Cowz | BOSTON, MA (1996) SYSOP | Brian Dodds --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-451-5284 | Zoom Telephonics Inc, Zoom Telephonics, Inc. | Boston, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-451-5327 | Commission Of The Blind, Mass Comm for the Blind, Mass. | Com. Blind, Mass. Commission for the Blind | BOSTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Chas Crawford SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-454-0567 | Gramp's Place | Lowell, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-454-3391 | Psycho Ward | BOSTON, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-454-3864 | Dave's Opus, Dave's PCBoard | Lowell, MA (1988-1991) SYSOP | Dave Layte SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-454-9515 | 99 Zone | Lowell, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-455-8154 | Gamma Hydra IV, Player's Guild, The Alternate Link | EAST BOSTON, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | Marcel Damien SOFTWARE | DLX, Spectrum --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-455-8415 | Dr Furballs BBS, Dr. Furballs BBS | EAST BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-461-4484 | EXETONE | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Yannick Pinson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-461-9595 | Block Party | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-466-2071 | Apple/Boston Elite | BOSTON, MA (1989) SYSOP | Chris Spencer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-466-8730 | BCS - Central | BOSTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-467-4824 | PDL | Marlboro, MA (1986) SYSOP | DEC --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-467-7437 | DEC Market | Marlboro, MA (1986) SYSOP | Bernard Eiben --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-469-0192 | DigiCom Hub, Digicomm Bulletin Board, The DigiCom BBS | JAMAICA PLAIN, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | Marco Bitran SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-469-6742 | Digital Horizons BBS | Boston, MA (1996-1997) SYSOP | Andrew Cencini SOFTWARE | Excalibur, O-M-N-I COMMENTS | "I ran this BBS following the wildcat BBS (AOS) (617- | 323-3841). The phone number listed here is actually for | what was the second node in the hunt group -- 323-3841 | hunted down to this number. While AOS was briefly a node | on FidoNet, the capabilities of Excalibur allowed me to | provide Internet access (node 1 was dialin for BBS, node | 2 was dialed out to Concentric) in addition to the local | community. A funny story about this was that Boston had | just gone through some re-arrangement of it's 7/10 digit | dialing and area codes. Well, I had the second line | hooked to CNC for an entire month via what I thought was | a local number. End of month comes, and I get a bill | from AT&T for nearly $2000! Remmber, like many folks, I | was just a high school kid, and I think my parents still | got the bill though it was my line -- and they freaked! | Somehow I straightened it all out with AT&T (and found a | better POP to dial into) but that was one of the more | interesting experiences I can remember. I actually | really liked Excalibur and even more so, O-M-N-I BBS -- | while there is no beating Wildcat, Renegade, etc., I | think this next generation really was quite impressive. | Too bad things had gone completely internet by that | point. A strong negative I do remember was the 1-4MB | client downloads -- people hated that! Now AIM/MSN | Messenger are at a minimum that size :)" - Andrew Cencini --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-470-0849 | Colonial NiteLite | Andover, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-470-2548 | Andover cnode, RCP/M CUG-NODE, Andover CNODE | Andover, MA (1983-1988) SYSOP | Layne DuBose --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-471-0542 | Tom's BBS | Wollaston, MA (1989-1995) SYSOP | Tom McGee, KA1TOX --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-471-5608 | The Coyote's Den | QUINCY, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-471-7454 | Jolly Roger | QUINCY, MA (1994) SYSOP | Bill Jolliemore --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-472-1676 | B.C.S. Telecomm, Photo Talk, BCS Telecomm | Quincy, MA (1984-1996) SYSOP | Robert Gorrill SOFTWARE | RBBS, Fido, Opus, Maximus COMMENTS | "The Telecommunications Group of The Boston Computer | Society. 1984: board runs RBBS in Quincy, MA. 1986: | board moves to new line at 617-786-9788 and switches to | Fido host software. 1987: board networks with the B.C.S. | IBM Users Group and "mirrors" their message bases, both | BBSes are FidoNET 1:101/122 . 1988: BBS switches software | to Opus and begins sharing B.C.S. echomail message bases. | 1995: In a try for a "super-board" the B.C.S. suspends | its normal FidoNET networking. Many INTeL boards | continue on independently. The B.C.S. Telecommunications | Group merges with the Photo Talk BBS and continues | FidoNET networking as FidoNET node 1:101/206 running | under Maximus host software. 1996: the Boston Computer | Society disbands." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-472-5992 | Crazy Coota's, Crazy Cootas #2 | QUINCY, MA (1993-1995) SYSOP | James Ankuda SOFTWARE | CNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-472-6753 | Crazy Coota's BBS | QUINCY, MA (1992-1995) SYSOP | James Ankuda --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-472-8612 | Boston Central, Photo Talk BBS | Quincy, MA (1987-1994) SYSOP | Robert Gorrill --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-474-0602 | Spinward Marches | DORCHESTER, MA (1990) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-475-5371 | The New Wyverns Nest | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Philip Stanway SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-475-7464 | Andover Hub, Chalk Board | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) SYSOP | Ed Germain --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-478-4164 | Milford RCPM/CBBS | BOSTON, MA (1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-478-6062 | Milford S-100 User's Sys., Milford S-100 User's System | BOSTON, MA (1983-1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-479-2462 | Fido Country Club | QUINCY, MA (1986) SYSOP | Nevin Markwart SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-479-3432 | Unicorn's Inn | QUINCY, MA (1987) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-479-3668 | MuScan Tcomm Music library | QUINCY, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Isaiah Lederman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-4633 | Arcanum | NEEDHAM, MA (1988) SYSOP | Chris Davidson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-4659 | The Little Builder | NEEDHAM, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-5324 | Mall BBS | Marlboro, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-7147 | FIDO #14 Waystar, Kevin Porter, Marlborough Hub, New | England, WayStar, WayStar Fido BBS | Marlboro, MA (1984-1988) SYSOP | Kevin Porter SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-8445 | The Shadow's Lair | NEEDHAM, MA (1988) SYSOP | Henry Garcia --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-481-9570 | Flight Connection | NEEDHAM, MA (1988) SYSOP | Jack Forman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-484-3050 | Tower of Power | BELMONT, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-484-4921 | Edge of Insanity | BELMONT, MA (1990) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-484-6425 | Business Forecast Systems | Belmont, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-484-9547 | Digital BBS, The Digital BBS (Node 1) | BELMONT, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Steve Grath --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-484-9587 | The Digital BBS (Node 2) | BELMONT, MA (1990) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-486-2285 | Rainbow Engineer, RBG-ENG HOOTNE | Littleton, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Bruce Gibson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-488-3025 | The Forgotten Realms | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-489-4011 | Taj Mahal |05|09 | Belmont, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Tim Miranda SOFTWARE | Renegade, Telegard & Renegade COMMENTS | "Taj Mahal was originally run by a blind/deaf/mute | student. He got accepted to college in 93, and so wanted | to transfer the BBS to someone else. I gave it a go, | being in high school, and kept it going for about a year. | We switched to Renegade from Telegard at some point." - | Tim Miranda --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-489-4930 | YELLOWDATA , Yellow Data | Belmont, MA (1985-1987) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-489-4976 | Amber-II, Amber-III, Amber BBS | Belmont, MA (1984-1985) SYSOP | SOFTWARE | MBBS, Lazarus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-491-1644 | Oakland Group | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987) SYSOP | Rohan Khaleel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-491-4568 | B.B.N. BBS | Cambridge, MA (1984) SOFTWARE | RBBS COMMENTS | "B.B.N. BBS stands for the name of the private school, | 'Buckingham Browne and Nichols'; it was *NOT* affiliated | with the famous computer company of B.B.N., 'Bolt Baranek | and Newman'. One of the first school affiliated BBSes, | B.B.N. BBS was heavily into the Fantasy Role Playing | Game, "Dungeons And Dragons". There were text files on | dungeon mastering, creating characters, creating | interesting traps for dungeons, and much more. B.B.N BBS | was also the first BBS in the area to carry the text | file, "Requiem For A Sysop". The appearance of this text | file is considered by some to officially mark the end of | the "First Wave" of BBSing. (The "Second Wave" is said | to have begun with the advent of Tom Mack's text file, | "The Second Ring", the advent of the IBM PC, and the | popularization of Ward Christensen's RBBS.)" - Winston | Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-491-5696 | Praxis Dev | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-491-6010 | D.R.A.G Net, Drag Net | Cambridge, MA (1985-1986) SYSOP | David Mann --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-492-3208 | Sinbad's | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-492-3674 | Sinbad's II | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-492-5295 | North East BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1996) SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-494-0565 | 4D, 4th Dimension BBS, Cambridge MA Hub, Fourth Dimension | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1995) SYSOP | Zeff Wheelock SOFTWARE | First Class --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-494-1985 | NET-WORKS Pirate's Harbor | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-494-2985 | Bald Eagle | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987) SYSOP | Brooke Albert --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-494-4960 | VideoLogic Inc | Cambridge, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-497-1656 | Electronic Warfare | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-497-6166 | 4th Dimension BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | Zeff Wheelock --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-497-6463 | Number Nine Computer Corp., Number Nine Graphics BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1989-1994) SYSOP | Tim Blagden --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-497-6641 | TRaSh Bin | Cambridge, MA (1982-1984) SYSOP | Jonathan Toner SOFTWARE | Greene Machine COMMENTS | One of the Original First Wave boards, the TRaSh Bin was | a TRS-80 board. It did not run Major Galacticomm | Worldnet, which some boardhoppers abbreviate as MBBS, but | ran the TRS-80 Multi-Board or Message Board, the first | use of MBBS as a designation of hosting software. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-498-4551 | Harvard BBS, Harvard U | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1991) SYSOP | John Moon SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-498-4553 | Harvard BBS, Harvard U | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | John Moon SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-524-9010 | Passion & Warfare BBS | ROXBURY, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-525-3203 | The Puzzle Place | BROOKLINE, MA (1993-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-0091 | Vuarnet International | NEWTON, MA (1992-1993) SYSOP | Jason Brothers --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-5677 | The Tao of Telecommunications | Boston, MA (1987-1991) SYSOP | Mark Kupferman SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host COMMENTS | "The Tao of Telecommunications was dedicated to | discussions of various topics that were mostly non- | computer related: local theater, music, and other events | around Boston. Between 1997 and 1991 the web site | operated at various phone numbers depending on where I | was living at the time (I finally had to close it down | when I left Massachusetts). During its last couple of | years of operation it was a member of Fidonet." - "Mark | Kupferman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-6026 | The Flipside | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-6567 | The Realm | NEWTON, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Emulex/II --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-8348 | The Assembly Line | Newton Centre, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Scott Perry SOFTWARE | GBBS COMMENTS | "A fairly basic BBS that ran on an Apple ][+ with 64K of | RAM and 280K of storage (2 140K disc drives) to hold the | BBS software, forums, files, etc. It went online in | November, 1986 and lasted through August, 1988. The most | unique feature of the BBS was the Simulated SysOp, a | program designed to mimic a chat session with a SysOp. | The user would normally ask a question, and the program | would 'type' a response at about the same speed as the | real SysOp normally would, complete with occasional typos | and backspacing to fix them." - Scott Perry --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-527-8373 | Shabtai's Opus | NEWTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Shabtai Lerner --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-528-9009 | CBBS Dr. Data | BOSTON, MA (1984-1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-534-1842 | Green Dog, LeominStar | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Lar Kaufman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-534-9028 | TC Trader BBS | BOSTON, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Cheryl Buzzell --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-535-9674 | The Think Tank BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Bill Heiser --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-536-1917 | PC Week, PC Week hints | BOSTON, MA (1986-1989) SYSOP | Garry Ray, PC Week --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-536-4670 | DD Network, FIDO #315 DD-Network, FIDO #315: DD-Network | Boston, MA (1985) SYSOP | Dana Long SOFTWARE | FIDO --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-541-3708 | CyberPunk OnLine! | ROXBURY, MA (1994) SYSOP | Dan Schor --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-542-6730 | MCB BBS | BOSTON, MA (1995) SYSOP | Charles Crawford SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-542-9105 | 3iVentures, 3iVentures,60M,bsns | BOSTON, MA (1990-1992) SYSOP | Tom Stark --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-544-3502 | The Power Station | ROXBURY, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-544-6933 | Locks Hill BBS | ROXBURY, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Robert Heller --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-544-8337 | Locks Hill BBS | ROXBURY, MA (1988) SYSOP | Robert Heller --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-544-8401 | MassNet East, Orange Dog | ROXBURY, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | David Kaufman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-545-2694 | The Dragon -Dragon Net-, The Dragon BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Jason Rhodes SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-545-6239 | Garden Spot BBS, GardenSpot, The Garden Spot | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1989-1996) SYSOP | Karl Johnson, Steve Johnson SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-545-9131 | Turbo Source Search | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1991) SYSOP | Gerry Power SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-545-9292 | Project BBS | Scituate, MA (1983-1987) SYSOP | Jarrod Kailef SOFTWARE | PRIME, GBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-545-9844 | Cave | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-547-1250 | City Solutions Institute's BBS | Cambridge, MA (1989-1994) SYSOP | Michael Rollins COMMENTS | From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Cambridge, | Massachusetts since 01/89. Sysop: Michael Rollins. Using | PCBoard 15.1 with 4 lines on MS-DOS with 8000 MB storage. | Hayes at 28800 bps. $25 Annual fee. Access free Cities | newsgroup cities@csi.cambridge.ma.us. Email to listsery | or join@csi.cambridge.ma.us and place sub cities your- | internet-address in message. Affect political policies. | Access political & economic forecasts. Be part of | solution - join. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-547-6246 | Cambridge Beach Club, Cambridge Dataworks BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Mike Helfrich --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-551-0188 | Net 101 EchoMail Coord, Reg 16 EchoCoord | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Jim Greely --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-551-0495 | Net 101 EchoMail Coord, Rainbow's Edge, Rainbows Edge, Reg | 16 EchoCoord | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1994) SYSOP | Jim Greely, Jim Greeley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-551-2269 | Microcom MetroNET BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Bryan Holley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-552-7797 | Newton Educational BBS | NEWTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-558-4241 | Cahners Publishing Co, EDN Magazine | Newton, MA (1992-1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-558-4272 | EDN Readers' BBS | NEWTON, MA (1992) SYSOP | Charles Small --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-558-9885 | Communication Breakdown | Newton, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Eric Poulin aka Dor SOFTWARE | WWIV COMMENTS | "Communication Breakdown transplanted itself out in the | Boston area from the 413 area code for 2 years while the | sysop went to Boston College." - Eric Poulin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-559-1638 | WARLOCK TREBOR CASTLE, Warlock Trebor's Castle | NEWTON, MA (1988-1991) SYSOP | Warren Shadrick --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-559-6844 | XBN III | NEWTON, MA (1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-562-4164 | Cheers BBS | BRIGHTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Andrew Miller --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-565-7259 | Z-Node | Newton, MA (1985) COMMENTS | Password: BIGBOARD --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-565-9136 | WB3ABN, WB3ABN BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | WB3ABN --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-566-0847 | IPPNW Connection | BROOKLINE, MA (1986) SYSOP | Andrew Kanter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-566-2685 | Planet Arrakis, The Death Star BBS | Brookline, MA (1993-1995) SYSOP | Winston Smith SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-566-7860 | Gridpoint | Brookline, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | David Shih SOFTWARE | TAG 2.5g COMMENTS | "Gridpoint was a kind of Sister BBS to House of Grace. | When HoG switched over to file transfers, Gridpoint | stayed mostly a message and Games board, and also had a | rivalry with HoG for elaborate ANSI opening screens. | Gridpoint was online most nights from 11pm to 7am." - | Wiley Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-566-8227 | TeleTypesetting Co. | Brookline, MA (1993) SYSOP | David Shih, Eric Dewitt SOFTWARE | TAG 2.4b COMMENTS | "This BBS was put up ostensibly to serve customers of | Teletypesetting in allowing them to ask questions of the | workers. Set up by two contractors, it ran TAG BBS, a | BBS system popular among a group of Sysops in Brookline | at the time, including David Shih, Eric Dewitt, John | Kumph, Wiley Cox and Leland James." - Wiley Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-566-9028 | MSP BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Daniel R Bibel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-567-0383 | National Weather Service | EAST BOSTON, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-567-3058 | Spacers BBS | EAST BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-567-8383 | Marine Weather | East Boston, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-567-8993 | Future Shock, Future Shock (BOS-BBS Hq), Future Shock | (Boston BBS-BBS Central) | EAST BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Tom Bradford --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-567-9987 | Concept Systems | EAST BOSTON, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Bill Forti --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-568-8110 | CHAOS | EAST BOSTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-569-3787 | Matrix Technology Technical Support | EAST BOSTON, MA (1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-569-4654 | Tony's Inn | EAST BOSTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Vision --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-571-0152 | Pro-NBS | San Diego, CA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-575-0131 | Oriental Crayon/2, The Oriental Crayon | BOSTON, MA (1996-1997) SYSOP | Ethan Schwartz --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-576-8603 | Page's Tavern | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-577-7931 | Linchpin | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1995) SYSOP | Kathleen Lynch --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-577-8092 | Buzzboard, FIDO #330 Buzzboard | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1985) SYSOP | Buzz Moschetti --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-580-0049 | Commodore Boardello | Brockton, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-581-3225 | NPI III | CAMBRIDGE 1, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | Charles Carley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-581-5087 | SCMAX!, Sin City TBBS | CAMBRIDGE 1, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | Herb Oxley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-581-5287 | Infoboard | CAMBRIDGE 1, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Richard Frenkel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-581-7651 | Skynet, The Capricorn BBS | CAMBRIDGE 1, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-581-9980 | VIDEODROME | CAMBRIDGE 1, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-582-2223 | Mass OnLine | BROOKLINE, MA (1995-1996) SOFTWARE | Searchlight --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-584-0155 | Bushido | Brockton, MA (1985) COMMENTS | Part time BBS (6pm-12am) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-587-1886 | Shoe City BBS | BOSTON, MA (1985-1987) SYSOP | Bill Ruby --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-592-0754 | Kids & Cops II, Lynn Woods BBS | BOSTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Brian Chisholm --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-592-5772 | NPI II | BOSTON, MA (1989-1993) SYSOP | Charles Carley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-592-8247 | The Far Side | BOSTON, MA (1988-1989) SYSOP | Bill Therrien --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-592-8404 | DX Online 10pm-7am, DX ONLINE Super System | Lynn, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Michael J. Klein --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-0081 | NPI | Boston, MA (1985-1992) SYSOP | Charles Carley SOFTWARE | Opus COMMENTS | "I was the Sysop for the NPI BBS systems it was actually | started in 1985 and did not become a fidonet node until | later. It was started with Opus ver 0.00 which I still | have an zipped copy of. It was a lot of fun and work in | the heyday of Fidonet (Fight-o-net). at one time I had | over 2500 registered users and 350 extremely active ones | NPI 2&3 were put together just to handle the flow of | mail. Ah yes the wonderful world of 300 baud." - Charles | Carley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-2605 | Freedom's Choice:CBCS/VETLink #18, Freedoms Choice, | Freedon's Choice | BOSTON, MA (1990-1998) SYSOP | Sarge Hultgren SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-4521 | First City Online | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Dave Lester --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-4535 | Satellite C64 | Lynn, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-4825 | First City Online | BOSTON, MA (1998) SYSOP | Dave Lester --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-7228 | Reflections, Reflections BBS, Reflections Fido | BOSTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Bill Reed --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-593-8659 | Sight & Sound | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-0211 | NORTH SHORE, North Shore A.M.I.S., North Shore AMIS | Lynn, MA (1983-1988) SYSOP | Brian Oliva SOFTWARE | A.M.I.S., Nite-Lite COMMENTS | "The most fun that you could have on an Atari 6502 8-bit | at the time, North Shore A.M.I.S. is the only BBS I know | of that has a pinball game named after it -- Brian | Oliva's "A.M.I.S. Ball" (courtesy of The Pinball | Construction Set). North Shore A.M.I.S. was rather large | for an Atari board of that time, and easily rivaled the | medium sized TBBS boards of its era. 1983: Board runs | A.M.I.S. (Atari Message Information System) 1987: Board | switches to Paul Swanson's "Nite-Lite" BBS software but | retains A.M.I.S. in its name." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-0805 | The Shareware Exchange | BOSTON, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | George Scarfo SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-1481 | New World Magic | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-5036 | Swampland NiteLite | Swampscott, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-5419 | SCMAX! | BOSTON, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Herb Oxley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-5626 | Boston Metro, Magic Boards, MassNet East, New World Magic, | NewWorld Magic1, NewWorld Magic2 | BOSTON, MA (1986-1995) SYSOP | Hal DuPrie SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-5627 | Freehold III, NewWorld Magic2 | BOSTON, MA (1986-1995) SYSOP | Hal Duprie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-6151 | Cyberdyne Systems | BOSTON, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Ed Williams --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-595-8459 | Metro Eagle, Metro Eagle BBS | BOSTON, MA (1991-1995) SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-596-1579 | Helm's Deep | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Mike Tetrault --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-598-3697 | The Power Arcade | BOSTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Nick Duda --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-598-4028 | COMNET, Reflections | BOSTON, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Bill Reed SOFTWARE | FirstClass --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-598-5616 | ICOMM | BOSTON, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-598-6646 | Baystate BBS, Baystate PCBoard | BOSTON, MA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Steve Ryback --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-599-2284 | Knight's Playroom | Lynn, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | David Preston, Michael Reynolds SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-599-2499 | Kids & Cops BBS, Kids and Cops, Kids And Cops BBS, New | England Treasure | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Rick Frampton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-599-7154 | ThoughtCrime | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1993) SYSOP | --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-599-7464 | The Castle | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-599-9884 | New England Treasure, Sentinel BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1996) SYSOP | Rick Frampton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-621-0190 | Shiva Corp BBS, Shiva TBBS | Cambridge, MA (1991-1993) SYSOP | Adam Heath --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-621-0882 | BCS Info Center, Boston Comp. Soc. Info Center, Boston | Computer Society Info Center | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Martin Wartak, Matt Howitt --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-621-3973 | Executive Connection Online | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-621-6090 | Eco | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-623-3244 | Algol-1, Project Crossbow | Somerville, MA (1984-1986) SYSOP | David Kaufman SOFTWARE | ABBCS COMMENTS | "The Algol-1 BBS used the Atari Bulletin Board | Construction Set. ABBCS was an ambitious software | package that contained many novel features for a BBS run | on the ATARI 8-bit micro-computer (a computer whose | virtues were pitched by Alan Alda), including an intra- | line editor. Unfortunately, the software package was | highly unstable, and after a large number of crashes, | most ABBCS SysOps ave up on the software entirely." - | Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-623-6345 | Crossroads, CROSSROADS BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA (1991-1994) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-623-7151 | Night Elite BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-623-9508 | HAL-9000 #2, The Megachip | SOMERVILLE, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Anthony Benenati --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-0381 | BCS Macintosh TBBS, Macintosh Help | Somerville, MA (1989-1995) SYSOP | Zeff Wheelock, Daniel Crawford, Becki Sherman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-0613 | Wet'n'Wild BBS, Wet-n-Wild, Wet-N-Wild BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Damian Antetomaso SOFTWARE | RemoteAccess --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-2671 | 802.3 BBS, Kriek's 2am-5am | SOMERVILLE, MA (1993-1996) SYSOP | Don Nightingale --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-2815 | The Puzzle Palace | SOMERVILLE, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Anthony Marsh --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-2835 | The Megachip | SOMERVILLE, MA (1995) SYSOP | Anthony Benenati --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-3203 | The Puzzle Palace | SOMERVILLE, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Anthony Marsh --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-5348 | MALL Five Opus | SOMERVILLE, MA (1988-1990) SYSOP | Mark Dulcey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-6709 | 10 FORWARD | SOMERVILLE, MA (1993-1994) SYSOP | Chris O'Brien --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-625-7682 | The Night Elite BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-628-4575 | ICOMM of Somerville | SOMERVILLE, MA (1989) SYSOP | David Bristow --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-629-0429 | ---===hal-9000===---, HAL-9000 | SOMERVILLE, MA (1995-1999) SYSOP | John D Buonomo SOFTWARE | TriBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-631-1070 | Navigator | FRAMINGHAM, MA (1993-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-631-1541 | Com One | FRAMINGHAM, MA (1994) SYSOP | Dave Wurth --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-631-3304 | DEC Rainbow, DEC Rainbow MS-DOS CP/M, Island Logistics, | TRUK BBS, TRUK BOARD | Marblehead, MA (1986-1994) SYSOP | Mark Borenstein, Mark Bornstein --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-631-4029 | Cambridge DataWorks, DataWorks | Marblehead, MA (1992-1996) SYSOP | M. Helfrich SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-632-1861 | Dave's Fido, Daves Fido, Daves-FIDO, David Rene's RCP/M | (??), FIDO #27 Gardner, MassNet | Gardner, MA (1984-1988) SYSOP | David Rene SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-641-1080 | Quincept Inc, QUINSEPT , Quinsept Inc | NEWTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Martin Schedlbauer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-643-4726 | The Whole Wheat BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-646-3610 | CBBS - BOSTON, CBBS Boston, FIDO #44 NECS Arlington, | N.E.C.S. CBBS, NECS | Boston, MA (1982-1986) SYSOP | Dave Mitton SOFTWARE | FidoNet, CBBS COMMENTS | "What can be said about N.E.C.S. CBBS ? It was an early | Fido board. The node number was below the 100's. The | board used to go down quite often. The Sysop would often | run it for long periods of time without any supervision | or intervention. As a result, the callers that got out | of hand got *WAY* out of hand! It resembled a "war | board", not by design, but rather, by circumstance. It | was a free-for-all where techies and pirates would trade | insults mano-a-mano in a cacophonous scream of teen | angst, bluster, and machismo amidst a background noise of | raging hormones. For a faint echo of what it was like | back then, today, try reading the international english | "FIDONET SYSOP" echomail message base." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-648-5874 | The New Beginnings | Massachusetts, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-649-7097 | Forum-80 | Dunstable, MA (1980) SOFTWARE | Forum-80 COMMENTS | Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February | 1980 Issue) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-655-0108 | Zorro the Malamute | NEWTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Ken Levitt --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-655-8935 | The Cat's Den BBS | NEWTON, MA (1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-657-4735 | Wilmington High BBS | Wilmington, MA COMMENTS | Part Time BBS: 4pm-7:45pm, 24 hours on Weekends --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-657-8320 | Concept Systems | QUINCY, MA (1992) SYSOP | Bill Forti --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-657-8512 | Atlantic Seaboard | Wilmington, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-659-1479 | Solution Systems BBS | (1986) SYSOP | David Nanian --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-0776 | Fire House BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990) SYSOP | Al Stiebel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-2977 | FENWAY AMIGA, Fenway Amiga | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Kevin Vahey --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-4504 | Decitree | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-6609 | ATF Support BBS, Softbridge Cambridge | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | HAL DuPrie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-7071 | CompuServe | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-661-9069 | BOSTON i-Path | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-662-4840 | Atari Hex Exchange, ATHEX | Melrose, MA (1984-1986) SOFTWARE | Nite-Lite --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-662-5445 | Block Party, Block Party BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994-1996) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-662-6969 | The Den | BOSTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Ray Gouin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-663-4221 | NITELITE, Original NiteLite | Billerica, MA SYSOP | Paul Swanson SOFTWARE | NiteLite COMMENTS | "The SysOp was also the author of NiteLite BBS software | for Ataris. ISTR that he had an old Nash Rambler station | wagon in his front yard..." --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-663-4758 | Worep's Corner | Billerica, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-664-5988 | Pro 99er's | North Reading, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-665-0048 | ABDEX | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-665-0977 | Outer City Limits, OuterCityLimits | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1996) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-665-3796 | Information Exchange, Wonderland | Melrose, MA (1985-1991) SYSOP | Ron Perry SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-665-4170 | MOM'S BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Michael Clark --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-666-5982 | Synaptic Potential | SOMERVILLE, MA (1988) SYSOP | Juan Pineda --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-667-7325 | Switchboard | Billerica, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-667-7388 | MACRO EXCH, Macro Exchange TBBS | Billerica, MA (1985) SOFTWARE | AMIS, TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-667-8905 | Exodus | BROOKLINE, MA (1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-668-1560 | Data Channel | Walpole, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-674-2345 | Argus Comp. Exc, Argus Computerized Exchange, ArgusCompXch | BOSTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Chris White SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-674-2367 | Argus High Speed | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-674-2395 | Argus | BOSTON, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Pam Morrison, Jim Salvas --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-682-0133 | BlackMarket | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-682-3751 | DigitlImags | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-682-5279 | ElctricDrms, ElectricDreams | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Paul Gosselin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-683-2119 | CBBS Lawrence General Hospital | Boston, MA (1981-1985) SYSOP | Dr. Matt Cushing SOFTWARE | CBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-683-2431 | Restaurant | BOSTON, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-686-5735 | 80 Boston BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Kenyon Karl --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-689-0699 | Abacus Data Xchange 80386 | QUINCY, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Steve Hobbs --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-692-3973 | FORUM-80 Westford, MA | Westford, MA (1982-1985) SOFTWARE | FORUM-80 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-692-5476 | Tool Box, Tool Box AMIS | Westford, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-693-7000 | Lotus Development Corp, Lotus Development Corp. | Cambridge, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-693-7001 | Lotus Technical Support | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-695-2528 | MCB BBS | BOSTON, MA (1996-2000) SYSOP | Charles Crawford --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-696-3146 | DBC Systems, The Eleventh Hour | MILTON, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | C Torben Dijnes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-696-8156 | The Durex Blender Corporation | MILTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-697-1206 | Sci Net | BOSTON, MA (1989) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-698-6177 | Big City BBS | MILTON, MA (1996) SYSOP | Mario Price --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-698-7909 | Miltech | MILTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-698-8627 | The Sports Card Express | MILTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-698-8649 | Tom's BBS | MILTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-698-8734 | Tom's BBS | MILTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Tom McGee --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-699-0206 | FirePlug II | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Don Martino --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-699-9357 | Attleboro Hub, FirePlug | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Kevin Sinksen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-720-1330 | Future Technology | BOSTON, MA (1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-720-3600 | ABBS - BOSTON, Future Tech Xchg, Future Technology, Future | Technology - 4DOS, Future TechXchg, Future | TechXchg,512M, NET-WORKS Pirate's Harbor, | Pirate's Harbor, PIRATES HARBOR, T-I-M-E- | C-O-R, PIRATE'S HARBOR | Boston, MA (1982-1994) SYSOP | Napier & Moran, Bud Napier, Napier&Moran SOFTWARE | PCBoard, Net-Works-][ COMMENTS | "One of the first large commercial pay boards in Boston, | a subscription to Pirate's Harbor would allow the caller | access to a collection of text files that would | extensively explain the various software protection | cracking techniques useful for all brands of 8-bit | computer. There were separate sections for all brands of | popular computer. 1983: Board is originally known as | Pirate's Harbor. 1986: A second line is installed at | 617-720-4097. The board now goes by the name of T-I-M-E- | C-O-R, rather than Pirate's Harbor, as the term "Pirate" | is now looked upon with much disfavor. Tightening of | copyright laws and the spread of the Internet will lead | to the eventual demise of the board. (The term "pirates" | is replaced by "elites" and "RaTz", among other | euphemisms....)" - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-720-4095 | Future Technology | BOSTON, MA (1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-1040 | Imposium, Impossium | BOSTON, MA SYSOP | Micah Imperatu SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-1688 | BLUE Line, DEC Line, DEC-Line, FIDO #202 DEC-line, The | BLUE-Line BBS, Fidonet | Winchester, MA (1984-1991) SYSOP | Bill MacNeill SOFTWARE | FidoNet, PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-5840 | BMUG Boston | BOSTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-6889 | Boston Metro, Metro Boston & North Shore, Net 101 Central | BOSTON, MA (1997-1998) SYSOP | Stephen McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-7360 | Base 10, Metropolis | BOSTON, MA (1987-1991) SYSOP | Peter Vernaglia SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-721-7386 | Revelation | BOSTON, MA (1993-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-723-7465 | Brewer PC BBS | Boston, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-724-3871 | Black Sun Neurology | BOSTON, MA (1994) SOFTWARE | SEARCH --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-727-0211 | C/H/S/B BBS | BOSTON, MA (1992-1993) SYSOP | Daniel R Bibel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-2175 | BCS-DLG BBS | BOSTON, MA (1993-1995) SYSOP | S McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-2843 | BCS - Amiga, BCS Commodore, BCS-DLG BBS, Boston Metro, Net | 101 Central | BOSTON, MA (1993-1997) SYSOP | Stephen McRae SOFTWARE | DLG Pro BB/OS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-4164 | Bcs Commodore/amiga, BCS Commodore/Amiga/Hypermedia, BCS | Commodore/Amiga/Hypermedia BBS, Boston | Commodore Support, Boston Metro, Net 101 | Central | BOSTON, MA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Stephen McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-7310 | ?-DLG BBS, BCS-DLG BBS | BOSTON, MA (1996) SYSOP | S McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-7340 | BCS Commodore, DLG BBS | BOSTON, MA (1993-1998) SYSOP | S McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-729-7987 | Net 101 Central, Net 101 EchoMail Coord | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Stephen McRae --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-730-9428 | Metropolis | BROOKLINE, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Peter Vernaglia --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-0521 | Road to Nowhere, The Road To Nowhere | BROOKLINE, MA (1993-1995) SYSOP | Jess Fiorelli SOFTWARE | Renegade --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-1575 | BeyondWar/IPPNW, BeyondWar/IPPNW BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1986-1989) SYSOP | Andrew Kanter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-4230 | The Hard Rock Cafe | BROOKLINE, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Rob Layton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-4239 | Embassy | BROOKLINE, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Hermes --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-8489 | The Electric Cottage | BROOKLINE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Sam Gorstein SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-731-9171 | Comm. Exchange | Brookline, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-734-2053 | Interface | BROOKLINE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-734-2975 | House of Grace | Brookline, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Grace - Wiley Cox SOFTWARE | Tag BBS 2.0 - 2.5 COMMENTS | "House of Grace originally was started as a Message-only | BBS running on a Tandy 8088 4.77 mhz machine, with a 1200 | Baud modem on a single phone line.
"The system really | took off when I upgraded to a 286-25mhz motherboard with | a 120meg Seagate 4144 drive, allowing for animated ANSI | logon screens, Games (Galactic Warzone, mostly), file | transfers. At one point, HoG had regular callers from | over 30 states and 5 or 6 other countries, including | Italy and England. At the end of HoG's life, the TAG BBS | system allowed for two phone lines, which I had, allowing | two separate users to chat with each other on the BBS. |
"House of Grace closed down when I went to College in | 1991, after being moved and SysOp'd briefly by Ninjo, | John Kumpf, also in Brookline." - Wiley Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-736-4766 | The Brandeisian BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-738-0503 | Beacon BBS | Brookline, MA (1987-1995) SYSOP | Spaceman COMMENTS | "Beacon BBS, run out of a location just outide Cleveland | Circle, was a well-run file-trading Bulletin board. | Spaceman enforced strict file upload/download ratios, but | if you needed a file, Beacon was the place to go. The | hardware and modems were always up to date and cutting | edge, thanks to Spaceman's job working for NEC." - Wiley | Cox --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-738-1968 | Wizards Tower | BROOKLINE, MA (1986) SYSOP | Tony Rousmaniere --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-738-3904 | Elaboration | BROOKLINE, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-738-5658 | The Night Owl | BROOKLINE, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-738-8432 | Sound and Sight | BROOKLINE, MA (1994) SYSOP | Daniel Hoffer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-739-2366 | Dr. T's, Mackintosh Users at Berklee | BROOKLINE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-739-7481 | Midnight DEC | BROOKLINE, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | David Strickler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-739-9246 | Star Base Boston, StarBase, Starbase: Boston | BROOKLINE, MA (1990-1995) SYSOP | Rick Giguere SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-739-9753 | World | BROOKLINE, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | IRIX --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-740-4722 | The American Lighthouse | DORCHESTER, MA (1991) SYSOP | Toby Wigmore SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-741-3423 | Witch City Fido/Opus 101/150, Witch City Opus | BOSTON, MA (1987-1989) SYSOP | Paul Walkin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-741-5046 | Plan-9 | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-742-8822 | K1HLZ | BOSTON, MA (1993-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-742-9194 | Linchpin, LynchPin | BOSTON, MA (1988-1992) SYSOP | Kathleen Lynch --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-745-4892 | Salem Adventure Board, Salem's Fido | QUINCY, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Ed Davis SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-746-4463 | On The Edge, Twilight Datalink | BRIGHTON, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Steve Jennings, Peter Flynn --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-749-0526 | The Fun House, The Fun-House | BOSTON, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Bruce Kelly, Brian Lawlor SOFTWARE | QuickBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-749-2123 | Atoll | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-749-4627 | Mud Hut | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-749-9903 | Aurum Computer Corp. | BOSTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-752-7284 | CBBS MicroStar | BOSTON, MA (1982-1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-756-4042 | Dragon's Lair, Modem Mania, Mouse House, NiteLite 86, Red | October Rising | Worcester, MA (1986-1992) SYSOP | Tony Piltzecker SOFTWARE | WWIV --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-757-8622 | DataCore Info Services, Worcester Hub | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Paul Outerson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-758-4735 | Mattapoisett Hub, Tech Line, Techline | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988-1991) SYSOP | David Rogers --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-762-5089 | 762-5089 | Norwood, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-762-5134 | Microcom Inc, Microcom, Inc. | Norwood, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-767-0760 | XBN I | BOSTON, MA (1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-767-1303 | PMS - Apple Guild | BOSTON, MA (1982-1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-767-2909 | Vi Bug, VI/BUG, VI/BUG (101/460) | BOSTON, MA (1989-1997) SYSOP | Donald Breda SOFTWARE | Opus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-767-5964 | Duxbury BBS, Duxbury Systems Inc | Littleton, MA (1993-1997) SYSOP | Donald Breda --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-0850 | Phoenix Sfwr, Phoenix Software | QUINCY, MA (1984-1985) SYSOP | Bob Vandette SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-3172 | IDCMP BBS, IDCPM BBS | QUINCY, MA (1990-1994) SYSOP | David Fisk, Ziv Yaar --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-4966 | Synergy | QUINCY, MA (1991) SYSOP | Jim Boxmeyer SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-5063 | Outlands BBS Microcom HQ, Synergy | QUINCY, MA (1988-1991) SYSOP | Jim Boxmeyer SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-5309 | Synergy | QUINCY, MA (1989-1991) SYSOP | Jim Boxmeyer SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-5468 | Synergy, Synergy - Borland | QUINCY, MA (1991) SYSOP | Jim Boxmeyer SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-6761 | Cullinet Software | QUINCY, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Ken Melkisetian, Nat Poe --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-8444 | IDCMP | QUINCY, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-769-9358 | Microcom's/MNP prot | Norwood, MA (1987-1989) SYSOP | Jim Fitzgerald --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-770-3066 | Quincy RAM-Net | Quincy, MA (1985) SYSOP | Andrew Moore SOFTWARE | Various (Citadel, RBBS?, MBBS, RCP/M) COMMENTS | "As best I can remember this ran around 1985. It was | more of an experimental platform for the system rather | than a long-lived BBS. I ran it on a Xerox 820 CP/M | machine or possibly 820-II (can't remember if the box was | upgraded before the BBS started). It started out as a | part-time BBS but eventually got a dedicated phone line | at 617-770-3066. Board went through several software | flavors including RBBS, MBBS, and a brief stint as a | Citadel system. Acronym stood for "R)CP/M A)nd M)essage | NET)work." Started out at 300 baud and I think it | eventually ran at 2400. At one point Jonathan Toner (who | ran TRaSh bin) volunteered some programming to give the | board username and password capabilities since I hadn't | learned about file I/O yet. Not sure when or why the | board came down." - Andrew Moore --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-770-9451 | Cheers! | QUINCY, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Scott Greczkowski, S. Greczkowski SOFTWARE | QuickBBS , RemoteAccess --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-772-3977 | Silicone City BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-772-5478 | Mike's Fido | BOSTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Michael Gray SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-772-6373 | Denis's Opus, DENIS'S WILDCAT! | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Denis Marchand SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-773-5471 | Barritone Max | QUINCY, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Jim Barrett SOFTWARE | Opus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-773-6466 | Virtual Harbor | QUINCY, MA (2001-2002) SYSOP | Tom McGee SOFTWARE | FirstClass --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-774-0751 | Shakers BBS | QUINCY, MA (1988) SYSOP | Bob Dealmeida --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-774-3510 | Magrathea Nitelite | Danvers, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-774-7516 | PMS - Computer City | QUINCY, MA (1982-1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-776-6029 | Teele Square BBS | SOMERVILLE, MA (1989-1990) SYSOP | Adam Heath --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-776-8722 | MacEast | SOMERVILLE, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-782-1952 | Chronic Disorder | BRIGHTON, MA (1996-1998) SYSOP | Apocalypse --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-782-9746 | Primary Link PCB1 XXX FIDO | BRIGHTON, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Tom Kilson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-783-1824 | One More Bite, One More Byte | BRIGHTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-783-4104 | Technical Ecstasy | BRIGHTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-783-4916 | Technical Ecstasy | BRIGHTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-783-8820 | Real Times #1 | BRIGHTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Tom Kashuba --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-783-8823 | Real Times #2 | BRIGHTON, MA (1991) SYSOP | Tom Kashuba --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-0018 | The Hall Of Heads | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-1367 | Pharmlink | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) SOFTWARE | PCBOARD --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-2773 | Synthesis, Synthesis BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Lee Woofenden --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-5619 | Geonet | BOSTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-9047 | The Garden Observatory | BOSTON, MA (1985) SYSOP | Automan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-784-9743 | The Floor Board | BOSTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Adam Levenson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-786-0722 | Wolves' Den BBS | QUINCY, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Richard Sensale --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-786-8282 | Razors Edge, The Razor's Edge | QUINCY, MA (1987-1991) SYSOP | Don Cosseboom SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-786-9301 | Hall of Champions, The Hall of Champions | QUINCY, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Richard Sensale --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-786-9788 | B C S Telecom, B.C.S. Telecom, BCS - Telecomm, BCS Telecom | , BCSnet Telecomm Opus, Boston Central, | Photo Talk BBS, BCSnet Telecomm OPUS, | B.C.S. Telecom. | QUINCY, MA (1986-1996) SYSOP | Robert Gorrill SOFTWARE | Opus , Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-787-3033 | DEC Rainbow, Midnite DEC | Brighton, MA (1986-1991) SYSOP | David Strickler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-787-3574 | Bris Kit | BRIGHTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-789-5840 | FRAZZLE'S FREE FOR ALL, The Dragon, Frazzle's Free For All | BRIGHTON, MA (1988-1996) SYSOP | Eric Boyer SOFTWARE | Opus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-791-5909 | Fire Fly | SAUGUS, MA (1988) SYSOP | Tom Trostel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-791-8723 | Megabyte BBS | SAUGUS, MA (1987) SYSOP | John Dickinson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-796-6802 | MEDMUG | NEWTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-821-0649 | FIDO #340 Leading Edge, Leading Edge | WOBURN, MA (1985) SYSOP | Fred Federlein --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-822-3322 | Starbase: Boston | DORCHESTER, MA (1996) SYSOP | Rick Giguere --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-823-6140 | Mass-Pet | Taunton, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-824-4878 | Masspet BBS | BOSTON, MA (1983-1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-825-1594 | Neponset Nite Lite | Dorchester, MA (1983-1986) SYSOP | Kevin Champagne SOFTWARE | Nite Lite (Atari 8-Bit) COMMENTS | "This BBS was moved in 1986 to UMass Boston (running | Michton BBS on an Atari ST), and then from there in 1987 | to Computer Cache, a computer store in Quincy, MA, where | it was run until 1990." - Kevin Champagne --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-825-3124 | Freeport Express | Dorchester, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-825-5323 | R+R Opus CBCS | DORCHESTER, MA (1990-1992) SYSOP | Ryszard Sliwinski --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-825-6388 | Boston Recipe Box | DORCHESTER, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-826-2412 | The Matrix! | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Ray Tuholski --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-826-7946 | Moonbase | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-826-8960 | Alternative Inputs | BOSTON, MA (1989) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-828-0868 | American Playhouse, Boston So Shore, Mass Running Board | BOSTON, MA (1990-1996) SYSOP | Barry Devine, Daniel Gentile SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-828-5965 | Silicon Exchange | Canton, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-828-7814 | Crypt | Canton, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-828-8150 | Leading Edge UG | BOSTON, MA (1987-1989) SYSOP | Mac Rosenbaum --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-832-9229 | The Parallel Universe | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Whirlwind --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-834-8981 | The Dungeon | BOSTON, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Dan Metcalf --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-837-4117 | Web | Mashfield, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-837-4914 | The Source! | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Dan Metcalf --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-837-7287 | The Wizard's Ark | Marshfield, MA (1990-1993) SYSOP | The Wizard SOFTWARE | telegard, renegade, oblivion/2 COMMENTS | "The ark ran on a packard bell 486sx33 with 16 mb. At | one point it also had a 286 12mhz box for the 2nd node. | DESQview was fun." - The Wizard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-839-5810 | STar Net | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Eric Drewry --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-843-6743 | Sears BBS | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-846-0237 | Withouta Net | WINTHROP, MA (1992-1995) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan SOFTWARE | TBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-846-0314 | Withouta Net | WINTHROP, MA (1996) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-846-5416 | Withouta Net | WINTHROP, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-846-7394 | The IMPosium, The Imposium BBS, The IMPosium BBS | Boston, MA (1991-1996) SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-847-4286 | The Present Future BBS | QUINCY, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Neil Calle --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-848-0193 | Epson RCP/M | Braintree, MA COMMENTS | Password: epson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-848-4930 | Blackmore BBS | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Scott Gorham --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-848-8281 | RCP/M RBBS EPSON, RTPM QX-10, RTPM QX-10 Boston | BOSTON, MA (1983-1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-849-0347 | The Graphics Factory | BROOKLINE, MA (1988-1992) SYSOP | Noel Gouevia SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-849-0975 | The Universe Elite, Parallel Universe ][gs| | BROOKLINE, MA (1986-1987) SOFTWARE | Ascii Express --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-853-4079 | IVY BBS | NEWTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Richard Kenadek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-853-7406 | BBS Pro-Hackers | NEWTON, MA (1984-1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-853-7420 | Mind Link | NEWTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Dan Dixon --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-857-3089 | Demon's Den | (1990) SYSOP | Fast Stocker SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-859-7398 | Five Point BBS | BOSTON, MA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Isaac Obie --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-859-7506 | Metro Boston Library, Metro Boston Library Network | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-1119 | The NEAT Connection | Lexington, MA (1996-1998) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-5484 | Byte Magazine | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-8125 | Writers Cramp | Lexington, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-8976 | The Works BBS | Lexington, MA (1989-1994) SYSOP | Dave Ferret SOFTWARE | Waffle, Ferret BBS COMMENTS | "Originally started in Chappaqua, NY in 1986, The Works | BBS went down when the sysop went to college. At the time | it had one theme and one theme only: textfiles. It was | pretty popular, especially as a place to download the | archives of textfiles available to any user who logged | on. After the board went down, Dave Ferret found the old | sysop on a BBS in Boston called "The Wall", and asked if | he could take it over, to which I agreed. The Works went | up in Lexington using my Waffle Run-Alike software, | Ferret BBS, and ran throughout Dave's high school career, | until he ultimately took it down via attrition. The board | moved in with Matt Iskra, who kept it going for a number | of years after that, and then grabbed by Owen, who now | runs it as a telnet BBS at works.org." - Jason Scott --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-9764 | Byte (magazine) (Tech Support BBS), Byte Net Listings, | BYTEnet Listings | BOSTON, MA (1987-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-9767 | Byte | Peterborough, NH (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-861-9774 | BYTE-Net | Boston, MA (1987) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-0781 | RCP/M MCBBS Superbrain, RCP/M Superbrain, SuperBrain RCPM | Lexington, MA (1982-1985) SYSOP | Paul Kelly SOFTWARE | RCP/M --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-2323 | Argus Computerized Exch, Argus Computerized Exchange | NEWTON, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-2643 | The Black Hat BBS | NEWTON, MA (1991-1998) SYSOP | Eli Fenton SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-5779 | B.C.S. Commodore, BCS BBS, Boston Commodore | Lexington, MA (1984-1997) SYSOP | Stephen McRae SOFTWARE | Info-Quick, BBS-PC, DLG-Pro COMMENTS | "The Commodore Users Group of the Boston Computer | Society. 1984: board runs Info-Quick 1988: board switches | to BBS-PC host software. 1989: board moves to the town | of Winchester, MA at 617-729-7340 . 1993: board switches | to DLG-Pro host software, joins FidoNET, and goes multi- | line. Line#1: 617-729-7340. Line#2: 617-729-7310. Line#3: | 617-729-4164. (FidoNET nodes 1:101/337 , 1:101/336). | 1994: fourth line added at 617-729-2843 . 1996: with | the collapse of the Boston Computer Society, two of the | lines are pressed into service as mailers on FidoNET node | 101/336; 617-729-4164 and 617-729-2843 become mailer | servers. Line 617-729-7310 switches from FidoNET to UUCP | mailer protocol to talk with the internet. Line #1, 617- | 729-7340 remains FidoNET node 1:101/337 . 1997: the | board bravely continues for another year, appointing Dan | Devoe's BBS as mail mover." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-6942 | Terra Cresta | Newton, MA (1982-1989) SYSOP | The Ninja SOFTWARE | Heavily modified PRIME COMMENTS | "Terra Cresta was arguably the best Apple-based gaming | BBS in the Boston area. The SysOps were programmers and | they custom coded an incredible game called Starfire | which was vaguely similar to TradeWars but substantially | more fun. They later also made another game called | TavernWorld which was also extremely popular, basically a | multiplayer roguelike game. The BBS was around during | the 80's, but I can't remember exactly what span of time | it was there. I would guess that it was in operation for | at least five or six years, but that's just conjecture on | my part. I would redial my modem for hours and hours | every day trying to connect - That's how popular it was. | I know it existed prior to when I started running my own | BBS, 'Project BBS'. The timespan I listed is guesswork | and may not be accurate. There were two SysOps of Terra | Cresta, but I don't know either of their real names. One | of their aliases was 'The Ninja'. I can't find ANY trace | of this BBS anywhere except for here, at the very end of | the file: http://www.textfiles.com/humor/lbinter.hum | Because of how popular this BBS was and how fun and | addictive the games were, I'd really hate for the memory | of Terra Cresta BBS to slip into oblivion without having | its place of honor among the other BBS systems in your | list. (By the way, my own BBS that I ran back then, | 'Project BBS', is present in your list. All the | information about Project BBS is accurate _except_ that | it wasn't based in Cambridge, it was in Scituate, about | fifty or sixty minutes south of Cambridge)" - Kailef --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-7037 | CROWS NEST | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-7502 | Number Nine Computer Corp, Number Nine Technical Support | Lexington, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-8707 | Games Galaxy | NEWTON, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-9373 | Argus Computerized Exchange | NEWTON, MA (1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-862-9377 | Argus | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-863-0282 | TERMEXEC, Termexec Newsletter | Lexington, MA (1984) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-863-0677 | Buckman Tavern, Buckmans Tavern, ? ? ? ? ?, Buckman's | Tavern | Lexington, MA (1984-1995) SOFTWARE | ASCII-Express, Hermes, FirstClass COMMENTS | "Buckman Tavern started as an ASCII-Express or A.E. board | running on an Apple-][. Here is the history of the board | -- 1984: BBS runs ASCII-Express. 1986: board goes private | for friends only. 1992: board goes public again, thanks | to the wild popularity of Hermes B.B.S. software for the | Apple Macintosh, at its new number at 617-863-8502 now | running Hermes and known as Buckman Tavern II. 1994: | board switches to FirstClass B.B.S. host and runs OneNet | networking and is now known as Buckman Tavern III. 1995: | board moves to the town of Somerville, MA, and goes | multi-line for a short while, before eventually going | down due to the Area Code split. Line #1 is at 617-625- | 7483 and Line #2 is at 617-625-7484." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-863-6305 | Late Nite | SOMERVILLE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-863-8502 | Buckman Tavern II, Buckman's | SOMERVILLE, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Lawerence Wolf --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-0712 | BCS*MAC | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-1592 | BCS | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-3375 | BCS Macintosh TBBS, Boston Computer Society, Macintosh | Help, McIntosh Help | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Becki Sherman --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-3623 | BCS IBM UG TBBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) SYSOP | Thor Farrish --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-3819 | CBBS Cambridge, New England Computer Society CBBS | Cambridge, MA (1980-1981) SYSOP | Dave Mitton SOFTWARE | CBBS COMMENTS | Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February | 1980 Issue) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-3904 | BCS Mail Server | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994) SYSOP | Bill Good --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-864-6909 | The Type Recorder | Cambridge, MA (1986-1987) SYSOP | Sam Ezust SOFTWARE | Tele-Cat 3.0 COMMENTS | "Host of the New England Apple Tree files and discussions | for Apple ][ and Macintosh Users. Also host of the Modem | Journal BBS List, a monthly-updated BBS list of the | greater Boston area. It ran on a Franklin Ace 1000, | Apple-Cat 212 modem, and a Corvus 5mb hard drive on loan | from the New England Apple Tree." - Sam Ezust --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-865-0498 | Davy Jones Locker #2 | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Richard Kenadek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-865-3290 | Davy Jones Locker, Davy Jones Locker #1, DavyJonesLocke | BOSTON, MA (1986-1988) SYSOP | Richard Kenadek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-868-0320 | SatelLife | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1996) SYSOP | Kerry Gallivan, Dieter Klein --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-868-1982 | The Infinity Well BBS =SoC= | CAMBRIDGE, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-868-5731 | Quantum Leap, Taster's Choice, The WareHouse | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990) SYSOP | David Savilonis (Slash) SOFTWARE | Telegard, Emulex/II --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-868-7987 | Mac East, MacEast Red Ryder MAC | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Holden Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-872-5170 | Framingham Connection | Framingham, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-874-3302 | Daves Fido | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | David Rene SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-874-4325 | Daves Annex, FIDO #310 Dave's Annex | Westminster, MA (1984-1986) SYSOP | Dave Rene, David Rene SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-875-3618 | Xevious | Framingham, MA (1985-1986) SYSOP | Nels Anderson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-875-4229 | Alloy Computer | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Scotty Williamson --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-876-4885 | AMIS Starbase 12 Philadelphia | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1982-1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-877-9823 | FoReM PC | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Matt Singer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-879-3714 | The Doctor | Framingham, MA (1986) SYSOP | Herbie Cohen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-879-4086 | Gator Bowl | Framingham, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-881-6332 | Northeastern Xchg | NEWTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Dave Perkins --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-881-6495 | Eagle-1, FIDO #73 Eagle-1 | NEWTON, MA (1984-1986) SYSOP | Dave Hornbaker SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-884-5106 | Fisherman's Cove | Chelsea, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-884-6106 | Pirate's Cove, The Fisherman's Cove | Chelsea, MA (1983-1994) SYSOP | Larry Cyr, Larry Cyr (Big Fisherman) SOFTWARE | Net-Works-][, C-Net, Telegard COMMENTS | "Pirate's Cove was originally part of the Pirate's Harbor | family of Net-Works-][ pay subscriber boards for | providing fee for service descriptions of techniques for | cracking software protection schemes on 8-bit software. | It changed its name to Fisherman's Cove and switched | software to the C-Net BBS host software in an attempt to | provide a BBS for the town of Chelsea, Massachusetts." - | Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-884-9498 | Jabba's PC Hut | CHELSEA, MA (1990) SOFTWARE | Genesis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-885-2543 | Silicon Valley BBS | NEWTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Paul Masiello --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-885-6816 | Spacers' Node | NEWTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Tim Carter --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-887-9829 | Fantasia | Topsfield, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-889-0777 | Jabba's PC-HUT, Lion's Den | CHELSEA, MA (1990-1991) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-889-4330 | MicroBBS, NET-WORKS MicroBBS | Chelmsford, MA (1983-1985) SOFTWARE | NET-WORKS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-0650 | INFOnet 2 | BRIGHTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | Pat Vittum --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-1349 | N.E.M.S. II, Pirate's Chest, PIRATES CHEST | Waltham, MA (1982-1985) SOFTWARE | Net-Works-][ COMMENTS | "As the micro-computer started to become popular, pay or | subscription boards offering software protection cracking | techniques on a fee for service basis started to spring | up all over Boston and its environs. This particular | class of commercial board to which the Pirate's Chest | belonged was known around Boston, Massachusetts, as the | 'Pirate's Harbor' family of Net-Works-][ boards. The | Pirate's Chest was one such board of this group." - | Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-4298 | The Other BBS, Vanishing Point | BRIGHTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-5649 | Sharky's Lunch Stop | BRIGHTON, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-5793 | PIRATES PUB ][, PIRATE'S PUB ][ | BRIGHTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-7338 | Blade | BRIGHTON, MA (1990) SYSOP | Laird Popkin SOFTWARE | STadel3.3a --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-891-9151 | Planet Zeebob | BRIGHTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-892-4295 | DavyJonesII | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1988) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-893-0889 | The Lost City of R'lyeh | NEWTON, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Lloyd A. Perna Jr --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-893-2170 | MMS Online | NEWTON, MA (1994-1995) SOFTWARE | PCBOARD, SEARCH --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-893-5772 | Info Jr | NEWTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | John Debay --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-893-9253 | Married With Kids | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-894-1157 | I-2000 | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-894-3090 | Donna Dee's Dungeon, Donna Dee's Dungeon #1 | BOSTON, MA (1991-1998) SYSOP | Donna Hughes SOFTWARE | Synchronet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-894-3398 | Donna Dee's | BOSTON, MA (1992-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-894-4958 | Donna Dee's Dungeon #2 | BOSTON, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Synchronet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-894-7266 | PIRATES PUB, PIRATE'S PUB | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-897-0346 | New England Comp. Soc., NECS/DEC CBBS | Maynard, MA (1980-1983) SOFTWARE | DEC CBBS COMMENTS | Cited in S-100 Micro Systems Magazine (January/February | 1980 Issue). At one point ran from 6am-7am and Weekends. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-897-5610 | The Boston L5 | BOSTON, MA (1986) SYSOP | William Caefer --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-898-0058 | Westboro Fido | MILTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Chester Humphrey SOFTWARE | FidoNet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-899-4492 | MacEast | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Clinton Gilbert --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-899-7534 | Dalliance, DaLLiance/Vortex | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1998) SYSOP | Stephen Hughes SOFTWARE | Synchronet --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-899-7570 | Five's Tavern BBS, Fives Tavern | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Shawn Bowlby --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-899-9483 | SilverMage's, The Silver Mage's Guild BBS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991-1997) SYSOP | Joseph Teller SOFTWARE | ProBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-921-0422 | Assembly | Beverly, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-921-1685 | Adventure Board | Beverly, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-922-8167 | IronMan BBS | MILTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Jim Allen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-923-7373 | Infoworks BBS | WATERTOWN, MA (1988-1990) SYSOP | Gilbert Edwards --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-923-7605 | Mass Ham, MassHam BBS | WATERTOWN, MA (1988-1994) SYSOP | K1OJH --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-924-1228 | Eighth Wonder, Eighth Wonder BBS | WATERTOWN, MA (1990) SYSOP | Robert Shaw --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-924-4255 | Luv Connection E, The Luv Connection | WATERTOWN, MA (1991-1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-925-3860 | Myron's Manor BBS | BOSTON, MA (1991-1997) SYSOP | Myron R Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-925-5305 | Grimmy'S Place | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-925-8508 | The U S S Light Speed, The U.S.S. Light Speed ][, The | U.S.S. Lightspeed, The USS Lightspeed, | U.S.S. LightSpeed | BOSTON, MA (1990-2001) SYSOP | Kevin Watkins SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-926-0673 | MA/Comm BBS | WATERTOWN, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-927-2537 | Titan BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | Bob Chesley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-927-6416 | Beverly Hubbillies, Rotor Head BBS | BOSTON, MA (1987-1988) SYSOP | Al Denis --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-927-7520 | The Godfathers Den BBS | BOSTON, MA (1988) SYSOP | James Allen --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-932-0958 | MMASKS | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Herb Oxley --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-932-4645 | Maximum Overdrive | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Jeff Maher --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-932-6820 | HAL-9000 #3 | CAMBRIDGE, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Paul Lawton --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-933-4035 | Planet Krypton | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-933-8310 | The Polish Home | BOSTON, MA (1994) SYSOP | Vladek Komorek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-933-8424 | The Polish Home | BOSTON, MA (1994-1997) SYSOP | Vladek Komorek --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-934-0132 | Stardock BBS | QUINCY, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-937-9514 | Northstar Communications | BOSTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-938-5370 | PS Computers BBS | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1994) SYSOP | Paul Gosselin --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-938-5408 | GEComp.Supp, GEComp.Supp,120M, GECS Support, GECS Support | bbs | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1991-1996) SYSOP | Jim Spheekas SOFTWARE | MajorBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-938-8790 | Sports National, Sports National BBS | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1995) SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-938-8952 | BitByteBob's | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1992) SYSOP | Bob McCown --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-942-1298 | Hack Net, Hacknet, Reading Access | BOSTON, MA (1987-1996) SYSOP | Steven Ryan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-942-1580 | Addison Wesley | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-942-1919 | Operation ICON | BOSTON, MA (1990) SYSOP | Brian Lane (Ron Hawks) SOFTWARE | Telegard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-942-2258 | HYE-TECH BBS | BOSTON, MA (1991) SYSOP | Stephen G. Keumurian, Stephen Kermurian SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-944-0543 | Police BBS C-64 | Reading, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-944-1063 | HYE-TECH BBS | BRIGHTON, MA (1991) SYSOP | Stephen G. Keumurian SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-944-9214 | Prison BBS | Reading, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-945-9093 | Tele-Byte C64, Lodie's Corner C64 | Chatham, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-946-0237 | Withouta Net | BOSTON, MA (1992) SYSOP | Bill Sheehan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-957-3476 | TI-99 | Dracut, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-957-3921 | AmigaManiacs, Cantelope Grove, Lowell Area Amiga Maniacs | BBS | Dracut, MA (1988-1991) SYSOP | Brian Pelletier SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-961-4865 | XBN, Xbn BBS | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1991-1995) SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-961-7870 | N.E. Online, New England Online, NewEngland Onl | CHARLESTOWN, MA (1982-1997) SYSOP | Michael Flood SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-963-3801 | The Pool House | BOSTON, MA (1992-1995) SYSOP | The Pool Man SOFTWARE | Telegard 2.6 --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-963-5441 | Split Infinity | Randolph, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-963-5807 | Toxic Warez Dump | Randolph, MA (1986-1989) SYSOP | The Toxic Avenger SOFTWARE | CNET-- highly modified 11.1a COMMENTS | "In high school I spent way too much time modifying CNET. | However, I made that board program completely customized. | I had psuedo AI automated SYSOP chat, download/upload | credits, etc. In my heyday I was getting between 20 - 40 | calls a day. Towards the end, it just dwindled. Time has | passed the BBS by. My BBS was a testament to guzzling | Coca Cola Classic, banging in Microsoft C64 Basic, and | abusing a 1541 disk drive. It was fun. I am often | nostalgic. The experiences were definitely helpful later | in life. Give a kid a 1200 BPS modem, an 8 bit computer, | and a cool alias, and suddenly the nerdiest kid in his | high school feels like a super hero. Special shout outs | to: The Culprit, *** CBM Ranger (upload to my board | dammit - whuh huh huh), Zippy The Pin Head, The Improper | Bostonian, Zack The Hack / The Shadowlord, The Warlord | (from Bushido), The Doc (from the Emergency Room), The | Big Fisherman (from the Fisherman's Cove). It was fun. | Thanks fer da memories." - Toxic Avenger --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-1515 | The Bus Stop | NEWTON, MA (1995-1997) SYSOP | Dan Polivy SOFTWARE | Adept-XBBS --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-1633 | Bus Stop BBS, Bus Stop!, The Bus Stop | NEWTON, MA (1994-1995) SYSOP | Dan Polivy --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-2006 | Mass Mac & Electric | NEWTON, MA (1989) SYSOP | Barr Plexico --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-2544 | BCS PCUG Mailbox | NEWTON, MA (1989) SYSOP | Steve Groginsky --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-2546 | BCS IBM UG TBBS | NEWTON, MA (1990-1994) SYSOP | Thor Farrish, Reed Butler --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-3161 | Boston Kesher (B'KOL), Boston Kesher (B'KOL) | NEWTON, MA (2001-2002) SYSOP | Jeff Liberman SOFTWARE | Wildcat --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-3766 | Warp Nine | NEWTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-5906 | THE PARTHEONON | NEWTON, MA (1990-1991) SYSOP | Sigma Omega/GEO --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-5974 | Sound and Sight | NEWTON, MA (1991-1992) SYSOP | Ishir Bhan --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-6028 | -Unknown-, PAL Online BBS | NEWTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | Paul Litvak SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-6088 | Newton' Corner | NEWTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-6866 | BoardWalk | NEWTON, MA (1988) SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-964-8069 | Bionic Dog, The Bionic Dog | NEWTON, MA (1986-2000) SYSOP | David C Lescohier SOFTWARE | Maximus --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-2436 | The Post Office | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-3036 | Newton Undeground Free Press, Newton Underground, Newton | Underground Free Press | NEWTON, MA (1992-1994) SYSOP | Joseph Teller SOFTWARE | RemoteAccess --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-5406 | Clear Software Inc, Clear Software Technical Support, | Clear Software, Inc. | Newton, MA (1993-1995) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-6467 | BCS Mail Server | NEWTON, MA (1991-1994) SYSOP | Bill Good, Dan Crawford, Thor Farrish --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-6575 | BioHazard | NEWTON, MA (1995-1996) SYSOP | I310HZRd SOFTWARE | Waffle --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-7046 | BCS ZI/TEL | NEWTON, MA (1991) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-7259 | B.C.S. Zitel, Big Board, Newton Center Z-Node, Newton | Centre BigBoard | Newton, MA (1984-1998) SYSOP | Jay Sage, Sage Microsystems East SOFTWARE | R CP/M, PCBoard COMMENTS | "This B.B.S. was a Remote CP/M board run by Sage Micro- | Systems of Newton, MA. It was a premier CP/M system, and | eventually became the home of all of the CP/M systems of | Boston. 1984: board runs R_CP/M. 1994: After running | both the Newton Center Z-Node board and the B.C.S. Zitel | board concurrently since 1990, and having merged the | Kaypro Group into Zi/tel, Jay Sage decides to merge both | the Boston F.O.G. and the Newton Center Z-Node into the | B.C.S. Zitel board and make it an "all inclusive" CP/M | board. The board software is switched to PC-Board and | the new number is that of the B.C.S. Zitel board; Line #1 | at 617-965-7046, Line #2 at 617-965-7785, Line #3 617- | 965-7259. 1996: the line at 617-965-7259 is dropped. | 1997: the line at 617-965-7785 is dropped." - Winston | Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-7816 | PRISM | NEWTON, MA (1988-1990) SYSOP | Jesse Berman SOFTWARE | Red Ryder Host --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-8294 | I.C.E. | NEWTON, MA (1988-1989) SYSOP | Kenneth Macleod --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-8761 | Billboard | Newton, MA (1984-1985) SOFTWARE | A.M.I.S., F.O.R.E.M. COMMENTS | "The Atari Message Information Service (A.M.I.S.), the | earliest Atari B.B.S. host software, was eventually | superceded by better software called the (F)riends (O)f | (R)ick (E). (M)oose, F.O.R.E.M. for short, a pun on | FORUM-80, an early TRS-80 BBS software." - Winston Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-965-8922 | Grapevine | NEWTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-966-0416 | Bellingham RBBS | WALTHAM, MA (1983) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-969-0925 | Shabtai's Opus | NEWTON, MA (1989) SYSOP | Shabtai Lerner --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-969-3138 | The White Zone, The White Zone BBS, White Zone BBS | Newton Highlands, MA (1990-1994) SYSOP | David Saganey SOFTWARE | TBBS COMMENTS | From the September 1994 issue of Boardwatch: Newton | Highlands, Massachusetts since 10/90. Sysop: David | Saganey. Using TBBS 2.2 with 8 lines on MS-DOS 80486 with | 4400 MB storage. US Robotics at 16800 bps. $25 Quarterly | fee. 2.5+ GB of IBM MS-DOS Shareware, Adult Graphics, | Midi & Soundcard Files, Windows, WazWare & More. Online | Games, Classified Ads, BBS Listings, QWK Offline Mail | Reader Support, News-bytes Weekly & PC Catalog Online. | ASP Approved BBS. --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-969-6230 | White Zone, White Zone BBS | NEWTON, MA (1991-1992) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-969-9660 | Boston Computer Society (Info,IBM) | NEWTON, MA (1983-1996) SOFTWARE | RBBS, Fido, Opus, TBBS (1:101/121) COMMENTS | "One of the early Boston boards, the B.C.S. main board | a.k.a. the Info Center, a.k.a. the Calendar board, has a | history that mimics the history of BBSing in general. ?- | 1983: Starts as an RBBS board at 617-696-9660 in Newton, | MA, USA. 1984-1986: still an RBBS board, it moves to | 617-227-7986, Boston, MA, USA. 1987: Finally ends its | isolation as a stand-alone RBBS board and switches to | Fido FidoNET networking as node 1:101/121 . 1988: the | Fido board switches to Opus, sharing echomail among BCS | groups. 1989-1991: Opus board switches to TBBS for | multi-line support and online databases. 1992-1993: | still a TBBS board, it moves to 617-621-0882 in the town | of Cambridge, MA, USA, the new B.C.S. office (the zenith | of BCS power!). 1994-1996: Giant BCS*MAC super-board | consolidation forces out Info Center. Board moves yet | again to 617-290-5726 in Waltham, MA, USA / Oct.1996 BCS | disbands!" --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-971-6019 | After Dark BBS | ROXBURY, MA (1998-2000) SYSOP | Rick Pitts --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-975-3163 | Inner Realm | BROOKLINE, MA (1987) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-975-5610 | Anarchy Alley | BROOKLINE, MA (1987) SYSOP | Judge Dredd SOFTWARE | STadel --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-975-9779 | Gould Electronics BBS | BROOKLINE, MA (1991) SYSOP | Chuck Grandgent SOFTWARE | PCBoard --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-981-1349 | PIRATE'S CHEST | EAST BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-982-8088 | Ariel Design Inc | Hanover, MA (1993) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-983-5421 | Arka Amateurs of Boston, Pornograffitti | ROXBURY, MA (1991-1995) SYSOP | Robert Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-983-5520 | Arka Amateurs of Boston | ROXBURY, MA (1994) SYSOP | Robert Smith --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-983-9590 | Spirit DataTree | ROXBURY, MA (1994) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-986-0904 | The Hide Out | BOSTON, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-986-7434 | Hackers Haven | Randolph, MA --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-994-8949 | AE Line: BRIAN | BOSTON, MA (1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-999-3210 | Alpha Five | Bedford, MA (1984-1985) --------------+----------------------------------------------------------- 617-COW-TOWN | COWZ Technologies | (1995) --------------+-----------------------------------------------------------